Is this story about US Jews real or just another liberal lie?

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washingtonpost.com
Nonprofits Get Federal Anti-Terror Funding
Church-State Issues Divide Jewish Leaders

By Caryle Murphy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 20, 2005; B01



Thirty-one nonprofit organizations in the Washington area, including 14 synagogues and eight hospitals, have received federal grants ranging from $26,000 to $100,000 to fortify their facilities under an anti-terrorism program that has divided Jewish leaders and drawn criticism from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The grants are part of a $25 million nationwide program that Congress approved last year and recently renewed for fiscal 2006 to protect nonprofit groups deemed highly vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

The Jewish community has long been security conscious because of terrorist attacks abroad on synagogues and Jewish centers, and that explains why a large number of Jewish organizations applied for the grants and received them, said Ronald Halber, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.

United Jewish Communities, which represents more than 550 Jewish organizations in North America, took credit in a news release last week for lobbying Congress to set up and renew the program.

But the executive board of the Union for Reform Judaism advised Reform temples not to apply for the funds. In a memo to member congregations, Reform leaders called the security grants "a serious violation of church-state separation" and said the $25 million "could have been better used beefing up first responders and police protection in high-risk areas."

A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said that the program is unnecessary and that the department tried unsuccessfully to have the money taken out of its 2006 budget. State and city officials already had the authority to award their federal homeland security money to nonprofit groups, including religious ones, and creation of the fund forced officials to set up a new disbursement system, said department spokesman Marc Short.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sponsored the legislation creating the program, said the federal funds protect "hospitals, schools, community centers, synagogues and churches from terrorist violence."

"I will keep fighting to protect institutions that are vital to our communities and the physical, social, spiritual and educational well-being of all Americans," Mikulski said in a statement issued yesterday.

The $25 million for 2005 was disbursed to 18 metropolitan areas considered most at risk of terrorist attack. Because state and local officials made the awards, the federal agency does not yet have a list of recipients nationwide.

The Washington area was given $4.5 million and has distributed $2.7 million, with the money being administered by the D.C. deputy mayor for public safety. All 31 applicants succeeded in obtaining grants.

In addition to the 14 synagogues, the recipients included two Jewish schools and five other Jewish organizations, among them the Jewish Community Cen

Answer 1

My Catholic Diocese would never benefit from funds like that.
Why are there not more balanced ways of distributing our tax money?
Are the Jewish people the only religious group our government needs to protect?

Answer 2

Sounds like a republican game to me. Easy way to get their already rich friends more money. Republicans are smart people and if there is a way to scam the public out of money they will do it.

How did you get any kind of an idea of that be a lib thing? I don't see it thatway at all. Read it a couple of times because that is so dumb of a thing to do it has to have deeper roots and to me sounds just like republican tricks.. They normally hire businesses that they have stocks in to do cleanup after storms and after wars. Read up on them.. It never even goes up for bid a lot of times.

Answer 3

If it was from the Washington Post, it cannot be a liberal thing. The Washington Post is owned by a huge media conglomerate, which is it turn owned by an active member of the Republican National Convention. I don't know it it is real or not, but if it is a lie, it is a Republican one.

Answer 4

present day liberalism is a right away descendent of the seen "Utopia". Liberals have faith that the international would be a extra effective ("fairer", "extra equivalent") place in the event that they are in a position to easily bypass adequate regulations and alter and administration society to sell their ideals. Jews, view themselves as a "chosen people" placed on the earth by making use of God to create a Godly society according to his regulations. purely examine out the e book of Leviticus, with that is intently regulated ideas and regulations that define what you would be able to do to be in step with God. Why, interior the recent testomony, you will learn Sadducees (Jewish non secular attorneys) arguing with Jesus that he and his folowers can not be holy, by way of fact they did no longer shop on with the EPA like standards on the thank you to bathe your palms and palms formerly ingesting!. So, there's a organic connection between the Jews, who introduced you Leviticus, and the Jews that run the government, or as I call it: Leviticus 2.0. The Liberal is on a ethical campaign to create a society of rules that carry forth a "extra effective" society, The Jew has an intrinsic ethical connection to attempting to apply regulations and regulation to create a Holy society on the earth.

Answer 5

Well mainly, there is no 'jewish community' - there are plenty of jews and those of jewish descent (that do not adhere to the religion, like myself) that have no part in this 'community'. I assume that the article refers to the jewish business community, particularly those that are successful and rich.

Answer 6

Seems legit as it comes from the Washington Post, but I'm not positive. And what does it have to do with liberals exactly?

Answer 7

You seem like and intelligent person, why do ask such a question tainted with racism?