Scholar-in-Residence: Brigitte Gabriel

Join us for a special Kabbalat Shabbat Service
and dynamic guest speaker, Brigitte Gabriel.

an opportunity to bash one of
the charter members of his Axis
of Evil seems to have developed
laryngitis.
So, apparently, have Vice
President Dick Cheney and
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice. Their failure to use their
bully pulpit on this occasion not
only plays into Ahmadinejad's
hands, but also serves to empower
Holocaust deniers generally.

Obscene And Dangerous
Why does the Tehran confer-
ence have ominous significance?
Because Duke, who managed to
get 43 percent of the vote in his
unsuccessful 1990 U.S. Senate
campaign from Louisiana, will
now be able to tell students at col-
leges in heartland America with
a straight face that his contention
that there were never any gas
chambers has international aca-
demic and institutional support.
And because the noxious views
emanating from the podium in
Tehran are hardly unique.
Pat Buchanan, a former adviser
to Presidents Nixon, Ford and
Reagan and now a well-paid tele-
vision commentator, would have
fit in perfectly. He once wrote that
it would have been impossible for
Jews to perish in the gas cham-
bers of Treblinka and has referred
to a "so-called Holocaust-survivor
syndrome," which he described as
involving "group fantasies of mar-
tyrdom and heroics.'"
Professor Deborah Lipstadt has
long maintained that while we
should never engage Holocaust
deniers in debate, we must, nev-
ertheless, expose them at every
opportunity. The Tehran confer-
ence is not just another gathering
of skinheads in some obscure
beer cellar; it is a government-
sponsored effort to evoke and
manipulate the darkest, most hei-
nous impulses in society.
Every single one of us, from the
president of the United States on
down, must repudiate this inexo-
rable obscenity publicly, unam-
biguously and in person.

Menachem Z. Rosensaft, a lawyer in

New York, is founding chairman of the

Ms. Gabriel is one of the Middle East experts featured in the
documentary "Obsession" and in Glenn Beck's CNN special:
"Radical Islam Exposed." She lectures nationally
and internationally on terrorism and world affairs.

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SILAAREY ZEDEK

Her just-released book, Because They Hate: A Survivor of
Islamic Terror Warns America, is a compelling memoir of her
family's harrowing experiences as Christians during the
Lebanese Civil War. She credits Israeli doctors with saving her
mother during the war, a turning point in her life that left her
with a profound admiration for the State of Israel.

Ms. Gabriel is the founder of American Congress for Truth,
an organization dedicated to educating Americans about
the threat of radical Islam.

Dessert reception to follow. Please register at 248/357-5544.
To pre-order signed copies of Ms. Gabriel's book,
please call the synagogue office.

Brigitte Gabriel's appearance is generously sponsored by

Photo Art Israel - Spencer Partrich

7:30 PM • Friday, January 5, 2007

Shaarey Zedek Southfield - Free of Charge

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