Jews for Rick: Jews for Jesus Speech is "Too Trivial"

Rick Santorum's Brooklyn Jewish supporters aren't deterred by the revelations that he was paid $6,000 for a speech to the Messianic Messianic Jewish Alliance of America group. They will release a statement on Friday to dismiss the issue, a spokesman told the OP.

"These things are too trivial to affect the nation's morale and economy, which would do better under a Santorum administration. The speech, which was solely a pro-Israel pep talk, should have no bearing on the campaign," the spokesman emailed after we requested a response to today's Politico story about the candidate's speech. The group's spokesman, David Shor, is quoted in the article that Santorum’s speech “does not trouble me. It has nothing to do with the campaign,” though conceded that that Messianic Jews in general “are trying to spiritually corrupt our community.”

We reported last month that at least 6 Orthodox Jews in NY are listed as Santorum delegates or alternate delegates. At least two of them, Joseph Hayon (who put on hold his Santorum work to focus on Storobin) and Avi Rosenberg, were very active in the Storobin Campaign.

This is not Santorum mingling Jews with Jesus. His South Carolina office sent out Hanukkah greetings with Old Testament passages, but his campaign later disavowed it saying that it wasn’t authorized by them. The other candidates had their own Jewish issues of course. Romney was attacked for slashing funds for kosher meals for Jewish old age home residents, and also faced questions about the Mormon Church’s posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims and other Jews, and some thought that Gingrich invokes Saul Alinsky so often, because he’s Jewish. Not to mention Ron Paul, who think the holocaust wasn’t the US’ business.

Senators Rick Santorum and Norm Coleman visiting BP in 2004 during the Republican Convention

For notification of new posts, follow me @opundit.