Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Democrat slams rival (a Christian) for attending event on Yom Kippur

The Daily Herald reports the whacky Democrat candidate for the IL-10 House race:
The spokesman for the Democrat running for Congress in the suburban 10th District on Monday criticized the Republican candidate for attending a political rally on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday.

The holiday began at sundown Friday and ended Saturday night. Observant Jews mark the holiday by attending religious services.

Neither Democrat Dan Seals nor Republican Robert Dold is Jewish. Dold belongs to a nondenominational Christian church, while Seals is Episcopalian.
There's more:
Nothing in Jewish law or practice prohibits non-Jews from doing anything they would usually do on Yom Kippur or any other Jewish holiday, said Rabbi Michael Balinsky, executive vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis, a group representing more than 200 rabbis of all denominations.
Should Dan Seals apologize for working for General Electric: financial angels of Adolph Hitler and Nazis Germany?