The Times has an entertaining and characteristically bizarre piece on the weird world of hasidic/hyper-orthodox Brooklyn Jewish politics that Carl Paladino stumbled into, to his apparent detriment, over the weekend. I only noticed after reading the piece that it was written by my friend and one-time colleague Nick Confessore. My favorite line, right-wing show-boating rabbi, Yehuda Levin, who’s taken on the roll of being … well, Paladino’s rabbi in the world of Brooklyn Jewish politics has the ambition to create “an Orthodox Tea Party.”
That’s wonderful.
We also learn that the Levin’s synagogue “has roughly two dozen members”, which sounds more like a minyan to me than a synagogue.
To learn more about this utterly New York story also check out this piece in The Jewish Week which delves further into just who wrote that speech that Paladino read for the approving black-coated men.
