The Sheer, Small-L Liberalism of ‘Rabbis for Romney’

By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Published: October 22nd, 2012

Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg

Despite recent polls suggesting Jews may not be voting as a monolithic bloc for the Democratic ticket, at least in this presidential race, it still has to be lonely being a rabbi who has publicly committed to supporting Mitt Romney for U.S. president.  And it must be even lonelier for someone who publicly committed to creating an organization called "Rabbis for Romney."

But when you talk to the man behind that organization, you discover that not only is he not lonely, he is not a particularly partisan individual. In fact, he's a registered Democrat, whose sole purpose for starting Rabbis for Romney  is that he didn't want there to be rabbis united for only one candidate, when he knows that there are Jews who also support Romney.

And while, unlike Rabbis for Obama, Rabbis for Romney does not boast hundreds of members, Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg is confident that the hundreds of hours and thousands of emails he has written has had an impact.  He knows there are people who are just a little bit better informed because of the efforts he and his dozens of volunteers have put in.

Rabbi Rosenberg makes it very clear that he is not a conspiracy theorist and he insists that "the president of the United States deserves our respect," he explained to The Jewish Press.
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