Jack E. Kemp
In the book "America's Real War" by Rabbi Daniel Lapin (yes, this is "Glenn Beck's rabbi"), I discovered the following information on pages 343-345. I will go in reverse order, stating the connection to Lady and former Prime Minister Thatcher before including the rabbi's letter to Americans concerning his opposition to the removal of Prayer in Schools in 1962.
"Shortly after the publication of this letter, Rabbi Jakobovits was appointed Chief Rabbi of Great Britain. His move to London deprived America of his heroic stands and he quickly became a favorite moral mentor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher under whose administration Rabbi Jakobovits was honored with a knighting and became Lord Immanuel Jakobovits."
THE LETTER:
"While this Supreme Court decision banning the recitation of the New York State 'Regents Prayer' at public schools was greeted with an outburst of enthusiastic applause from national Jewish organizations and leaders, a few Jewish voices were raised in dissent. Among the first of these was the following letter, published in the New York Times on July 4, 1962.
Lest it be thought that all rabbis concur with the recent statement by the New York Board of Rabbis praising the Supreme Court Decision on prayer at public schools, I wish to express my dissent from, and utter dismay at, this strange alliance between teachers of Judaism and the spokesmen of atheism or secularism who secured and applauded the verdict.
As spiritual leaders of the people that gave birth to the immortal vision of the days when 'the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea,' we can scarcely, I submit, be jubilant about outlawing the acknowledgement and worship of God from any area of life, least of all from schools, which pre-eminently fashion the outlook of our future citizens, would making a travesty of Jewish thought and history.
For many centuries devout Jewish parents have taught their children, long before they could read or even speak properly, to include in the simple morning prayers the verse from the Hebrew Bible: 'The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord,' so as to instill in them the conviction that knowledge or education without a religious foundation is worthless.
The United States is now probably the only country in the world outside the Iron Curtain to brand as an offense the public acknowledgment of God in schools. How can rabbis, heirs to the Prophets of Israel, rejoice over this?
Freedom cannot be maintained without religion, just as the brotherhood of man requires the Fatherhood of God. A generation of heathen hedonists, worshiping the idols of happiness and material success, will be unable to evoke the Herculean strength necessary to maintain the mighty tide of godlessness in the defense of liberty. Furthermore, even statistics show that only children reared in a wholesome religious atmosphere are likely to develop the maximum immunity to the scourge of juvenile delinquency corroding our society and undermining its security.
'The wall of separation' between state and church must be constructed with ample gateways to prevent the divorce of education from religion if that wall is not to lay siege to our civilization and starve it to death.
These are purely my personal views, but I have not doubt that they are shared by many of my colleagues, whether they are members of the Board of Rabbis or not.
New York, July 1, 1962
Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits
Fifth Avenue Synagogue
New York City"
Comment
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on February 6, 2012 at 7:43am Lucifer did his work when he tried to turn Christian against Jew and Jew against Christian, But, The Bond Today is even stronger between Jew & Christian and Satan is the enemy of us both and one day Satan and his angels will get their just reward.
Semper Fidelis,
Ron
Comment by Ron Boyer on February 6, 2012 at 5:09am Read How To Kill 11 Million People and you will get a chill up your spine.
Comment by Steve Wagner on February 5, 2012 at 9:28pm Civil disobedience is in order... Time to ignore any judge or public official who goes against the bill of rights & the Constitution. Time to just say NO! We will not obey!
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on February 5, 2012 at 7:21pm 
Comment by Agi Yaeger on February 5, 2012 at 6:21pm Jerold, it's more than just the liberal Jews. Liberalism, Marxism and all other isms defy G-d. They abandoned Him. Religion and those isms cannot co-exist together. So it is with all those who believe in isms.
Europe has become the most atheist continent because it was destroyed by too many invasions and rulers who defied G-d. They never recovered from that.
You now have a civilization of non-believers there. Many of its places are no better today than it was in biblical times in Sodom and Gomorah. It is synonymous with impenitent sin and their fall because of G-d's wrath. Just witness its quick demise. There is a definite connection.
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on February 5, 2012 at 5:42pm GOD GAVE DAVID "THE SHEPHERD BOY" "HIS" PROVISION TO SLAY "GOLIATH" BECAUSE DAVID "TRUSTED IN YAHWEH ALL OF HIS LIFE" AND HE SAID "MY GOD DELIVERED ME FROM THE BEAR AND THE LION...WHEN THEY CAME TO SLAY MY SHEEP AND I SLEW THEM AND SURELY "HE" WILL DELIVER ME FROM THIS UNCIRCUMCIZED HEATHEN THAT THREATEN THE "ARMY OF GOD".
DAVID, AS A KING, WAS JUST AS HMBLED BY GOD AND ALWAYS "GAVE GOD THE GLORY FOR HIS SUCCESSES". HE EVEN SHED HIS ROYAL ROBE AND DANCED IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM FOR GOD'S PROVIDENCE AND DELIVERY OF THE HEBREWS FROM THE SNARES OF THE PHILISTINES AND OTEHERSAND DAVID'S WIFE SAID, "YOU ARE MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF DANCING IN THE STREETS GIVING YAHWEH THE CLORY FOR THESE VIICTORIES....DAVID SAID, "I AM WILLING TO MAKE OF MYSELF, BEFORE THE PEOPLE.... FOR MY LORD" !
Semper Fidelis,
Ron
Comment by SHARRON AMSTER on February 5, 2012 at 5:40pm We have seen what it is like to have the last fifty years or the me group raise theirs with their if it fills good do it and no god or manners. Just I want it now and you owe it to me. This is the time that tries mans soul. We will need the black robe regiment all the wall.
Comment by Ronald Sorrells on February 5, 2012 at 5:31pm Amen Barry !
"People of Faith" must band ourselves together and "Live Out The Trust" that Our Forefathers had in God. THEY MADE NO "POLITICAL HAY" OUT OF DEVELOPING THE "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" AND THE CONSTITUTION BUT HUMBLY "RECOGNIZED WHAT GOD HAD ALREADY DONE FOR THEM AND US AND PLACED THAT ON "THE" DOCUMENT THAT WOULD BE THE CORNERSTONE OF THIS REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THEY PROCLAIMED "THAT ONLY THROUGH GOD'S PROVIDENCE WERE"THEY" ABLE TO DO ANYTHING TOWARD DEVELOPING THIS NATION.
WE MUST HAVE A "REVIVIAL OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND PRAY THAT HE WILL GIVE US THE DECERNMENT TO "KNOW THE TRUTH AND THER COURAGE TO DO THAT WHICH GOD GUIDES US TO DO TO REPAIR OUR BROKEN NATION AND OUR BRUISED SPIRITS".
Semper Fidelis,
Ron
Comment by Barry Gabrielson on February 5, 2012 at 5:21pm William. They have no one standing up against them. Communists, Socialist, Marxist, Secular Fundimentalist, Muslim Terriorist. Progressives know one thing and one thing only. If you do nothing, they will walk all over you.
If you challenge them, they will threaten you. When they treaten you, you punch their lights out. Now, you have their attention. Until this time, you are no threat, so they can continue their way. If we all stand up to them, stand strong, they will back down. If and when we dont, they take over.
Comment by william e grant on February 5, 2012 at 5:16pm IF YOU LET THEM HAVE THERE WAY ( THE COMMUNIST ) THEY WILL KEEP GOING TILL YOU ARE DEAD,AND YOUR CHILDREN TO , THEY DON'T CARE FOR THEY ARE EVIL.
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