Washington Jewish Week: Rabbis sign on to JFSJ battle with Beck, Fox News

[Omaha Steve]

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=14310&TM=34265.93


Glenn Beck, Fox News analyst, has been under attack by Jewish Funds for Justice for his frequent use of Nazi comparisons to attack liberal political figures.
Photo by Gage Skidmore


By Ben Harris

JTA News and Features

The 400 rabbis who took Glenn Beck and Fox News to task in full-page ads last week did so under the name of a Jewish organization not generally known for policing the use of Holocaust imagery.

Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), which paid for the same ad in two newspapers and whose name and logo appear at the top, is a social justice group that typically focuses on poverty issues.

But it has found its highest profile issue in an ongoing spat with Beck over his frequent use of Nazi comparisons to disparage his mostly liberal political opponents.

JFSJ reportedly paid in the six figures for the ad in the Jan. 27 edition of The Wall Street Journal, which was timed to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The advertisement took the form of an open letter to Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch, asking him to sanction Beck. An identical ad also appeared in the Jewish Forward newspaper.

"We share a belief that the Holocaust, of course, can and should be discussed appropriately in the media," the letter said. "But that is not what we have seen at Fox News."

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. K & R

I am confused by the abbreviation that Jewish Funds for Justice uses for itself: JFSJ. What does the 'S' stand for? I even visited their website, but it didn't clear up my confusion.

[starroute]

3. It seems to be Jewish Funds for Social Justice

I can't figure out when or why the name was changed, though.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Go for it, Father Coughlin, Jr.

Keep attacking the rabbis and see what happens . . . .