{"id":18591,"date":"2012-07-24T00:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18591"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:10","slug":"michael-weinstein-makes-today-in-jewish-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/michael-weinstein-makes-today-in-jewish-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Weinstein Makes Today in Jewish History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitchell Levin writes\u00a0a daily “This Day in Jewish History” that is carried a few places on the internet.\u00a0 At the Jewish CJN, the July 16 edition of Levin’s piece featured none other than Michael Weinstein.\u00a0 This is how Levin — who appears to have no stake or hidden agenda — portrays Weinstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n

2006: In an article entitled \u201cMarching as to War,\u201d The Washington Post <\/em>reported on the efforts of Mikey Weinstein, graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the father of an academy graduate, to stop the missionary work of Christian ministers at the Air Force Academy.\u00a0 In particular he is targeting the Officer\u2019s Christian Fellowship who says its goal is a \u201cspiritually transformed military with ambassadors for Christ in in uniform, empowered by the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Post<\/em> article was largely friendly to Weinstein.\u00a0 According to Levin’s summary, though, Weinstein’s purpose is\u00a0opposition to “Christian ministers,” and he is particularly “targeting” OCF.<\/p>\n

Notice that in the brief summary of Michael Weinstein’s short time on the public scene, “religious freedom” is nowhere mentioned (though it was claimed <\/em>by Weinstein in the cited Post<\/em>\u00a0article).\u00a0 Weinstein\u00a0is remembered not for his “advocacy” for “freedom,” but for his attacks\u00a0specifically on Christians.\u00a0 It seems Weinstein’s legacy has been sealed — and it has been revealed for the truth of what it is, not the fa\u00e7ade he paints upon it.<\/p>\n

As an aside, the original 2006\u00a0Post<\/em> article made one astute observation that has been verified in recent years:<\/p>\n

Judging by his taste in cars, Weinstein appears to have plenty of disposable income, but he declines to discuss his finances: “I’m wealthy in the love I have for my family, that’s all I’ll say.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The author was\u00a0referring to Weinstein’s decision to trade in his $85,000 Viper “for an even more exotic Lotus,” which is what the heads of all the cool tax-exempt charities were driving that year.\u00a0 Of course, as the founder and\u00a0sole paid officer for that\u00a0“charity,” Weinstein\u00a0can’t <\/em>“decline” to reveal his finances to the IRS.\u00a0 But at the time of the article, Weinstein had yet to tell the donors to his “charity” that he would take nearly half\u00a0<\/em>of their tax-deductible donations as a personal paycheck that year, so naturally he demurred.\u00a0 Of course, it is now well-known that Weinstein’s lavish lifestyle<\/a> has been well-supported by his charitable donors<\/a>\u00a0in the years since the Post<\/em> article was published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitchell Levin writes\u00a0a daily “This Day in Jewish History” that is carried a few places on the internet.\u00a0 At the Jewish CJN, the July 16 edition of Levin’s piece featured none other than Michael Weinstein.\u00a0 This is how Levin — who appears to have no stake or hidden agenda — portrays Weinstein: 2006: In an article entitled \u201cMarching as to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2891,1298,96,953,39,85,2,5218,3402,7,81,179,10,171,65],"class_list":["post-18591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-20-3967302","tag-charity","tag-christian","tag-irs","tag-jewish","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mitchell-levin","tag-mrff","tag-ocf","tag-officers-christian-fellowship","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}