I am proud, as a rabbi, to have deep and strong relationships with my Catholic brothers and sisters. I've always believed that the Messiah will come, and we Jews will say “welcome,” while my Catholic and Christian brethren will say “welcome back,” and all true people of faith will accept Him. I am thankful for having taught theological studies at LMU, a Catholic University. And I am grateful for having made a positive difference for American Catholics when I wrote the first article condemning the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2023 for their honoring of a drag queen group that degrades the Church in general and nuns specifically.

I am especially honored that a man as great as Gen. Michael Flynn commented on that article, saying, “It is remarkable that this leader of the Jewish community, that someone not even Catholic has more courage to speak up than some in Catholic leadership itself.”  And I was grateful that my article inspired the group Catholics for Catholics to have a rally at Dodger Stadium in protest, and that I was asked to speak at the event.

This is why I am so profoundly saddened, and absolutely shocked, that Catholics for Catholics is having one of America’s biggest Jew-haters, Candace Owens, as a keynote speaker at their annual fundraising gala on March 19.