That’s right, 340 rabbis support the deal. Which means that over 5,000 rabbis in the United States refused to put their name on a document supporting Iran getting the bomb.
A look at the names of the signatories reveals a veritable who’s who of the progressive advocacy group J Street. The self-described “president’s blocking back” in Congress tends to enlist rabbis and activists whose religion is liberalism, not Judaism.
With 95 percent of American rabbis not signing the letter, the document isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
The real story is that Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish Federation chapters from Boston and Philadelphia to Los Angeles and Chicago have rejected this deal. Even the American Jewish Committee, which is not exactly a bastion of right-wing advocacy, came out against the agreement, and the reliably pro-Obama and Democrat Party stalwarts of the Union of Reform Judaism refuse to back the president’s play.
In a world where religion is often a casus belli, the fact that Americans of different faiths have come together with the hope of preventing one is the silver lining in this dark mushroom cloud known as the Iran deal.