Daniel Lapin - Opposition to Jewish liberalism

Daniel Lapin is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the founder of Toward Tradition,the Pacific Jewish Center, the Commonwealth Loan Company and the Cascadia Business Institute. Daniel Lapin - Background. Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. His father, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Lapin, a nephew of Rabbi Elya Lopian 1872-1970, served as a prominent and outspoken Orthodox rabbi in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and eventually established an Orthodox synagogue (Am EchadIncluding:

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Daniel Lapin - Support for conservative Christians. Both Lapin and Medved promote conservative political principles, inter-mixed with traditional religious observance. Lapin was one of the Jewish voices in support of Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ, and was a strong supporter of the efforts by Terri Schiavo's parents to keep their daughter alive. He is also a strong supporter of Pope Pius XII ...

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Lapin and his organization Toward Tradition became a participant in the Abramoff-Reed Indian Gambling Scandal in 2005 because of information that surfaced during US Senate hearings into disgraced Republican lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff. The Senate hearings revealed emails between Lapin and Jack Abramoff, wherein Lapin had created phony academic awards for Talmudic studies --complete with letters and plaques -- to help Abramoff gain admittance to the Cosmos Club, an exclusive Washington, DC organization. (Washington Po ...

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The Washington Post reported on October 16, 2005, that Lapin's religious charity received a $25,000 donation in 2000 from online gambling company eLottery, a lobbying client of Jack Abramoff and his employer, Preston Gates Ellis, despite Lapin's professed opposition to gambling. Some or all of the money received by Lapin was then laundered into a company run by the wife of Tony Rudy, the Tom DeLay aide who was instrumental in killing an antigambling bill that eLottery and Abramoff were lobbying against. In an interview, Lapin claimed not to ...

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According to an article published January 9, 2006, in the Seattle Times, Jack Abramoff served on the board of Toward Tradition, including a stint as chairman, and donated the $10,000 a year expected from board members. One year Abramoff met that requirement by sending a check from the Capital Athletic Foundation, an organization Abramoff controlled that has since become a key piece of the Abramoff corruption investigation. A January 4, 2006 article in Newsweek alleged that Lapin urged supporters of President George W. Bush's re-election to give campaign donations through Abramoff, helping Abramof ...

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Lapin asks: "Does God want people to be rich?" ..."Yes!" he says, because God "wants us to be obsessively preoccupied by one another's needs," a habit that the commerce relationship fosters. "Wealth is a consequence of doing the right thing," he says. He argues that the Torah supports the free market and opposes punitive taxation, and wants people to pass on assets to their descendants rather than being taken by the government by inheritance taxes. Conversely, atheistic governments have never produced a free ...

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Lapin founded the Pacific Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue in Venice, California that views itself as functioning as part of the recent Baal teshuva movement, encouraging Conservative and Reform Jews to adopt and return to a more observant traditional Judaism. Michael Medved was a member and is currently a board member of Toward Tradition. Actors Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss, although not politically conservative, participated in that religious community and synagogue. Lapin's teachings are also aligned with Modern ...

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Lapin often flew east to stay with Republican lobbyist and soon-to-be-convicted felon Jack Abramoff. Lapin has had breakfast with Karl Rove and considers himself a "close friend" of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. He also has Zig Ziglar as a frequent and enjoyed guest in his house, and is friends with Professor Walter Block of Loyola University of New Orleans. "When you're talking to a pastor he could be inspired by God, etc., but he may not have the scholarship," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, one of several Republ ...

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Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. His father, Rabbi Avraham Chaim Lapin, a nephew of Rabbi Elya Lopian 1872-1970, served as a prominent and outspoken Orthodox rabbi in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and eventually established an Orthodox synagogue (Am Echad) in San Jose, California after he left South Africa in the late 1970s. Lapin's two brothers, David Lapin and Raphael Lapin, are also Orthodox rabbis and have similar educational backgrounds, having emigrated from South Africa to California. ...

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