Pastor John Hagee, the pro-Israel evangelical leader whose endorsement of John McCain recently became a contentious sideshow in the presidential race, dropped by a Los Angeles Reform synagogue for a public chat with a local rabbi. L.A. Jewish Journal “Calendar Girl” Danielle Berrin was at the Stephen S. Wise Temple’s “Forum on Critical Values” for…
JTA’s Ami Eden poses some questions via e-mail to controversial Christians United for Israel founder Pastor John Hagee, who has been accused of being anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim and, by some, even antisemitic (and, by me, of being too philosemitic for his own good). Here’s part of the Q&A: You have been attacked by liberal Jews who…
One thing that’s easy to miss in the brouhaha over McCain endorser Pastor John Hagee’s supposed anti-Catholicism is the context in which he made his controversial remarks. Many of the remarks that have been pointed to by Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights chief Bill Donohue as evidence of the pastor’s anti-Catholicism were made…
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