Rabbi Boteach (attempts) to school Michael Coren

I watched the Coren/Boteach interview on Sun News Network in its entirety as well as the follow up of the interview on SNN the next day. It is clear to me that our good Rabbi was spoiling for a fight from the outset and was looking for the first comment from Coren he could find to twist to his advantage and Coren soon provided him with one by citing the Jewish influence in Hollywood as an example of Left-wing Jews promulgating negative stereotypes about Christians as ignorant country bumpkins and anti-Semites. Boteach, without taking a breath, quickly twisted Coren’s example into Coren implying that the Jews controlled Hollywood as well as media, banks etc., none of which Coren said or even implied. The interview quickly degenerated into a shouting match from there. Clearly Boteach knew very little if anything about Coren’s background either personally or professionally. Coren himself is half Jewish on his father’s side going back several generations and he has always proudly talked about his Jewish inheritance. Coren never converted to Roman Catholicism until 1985. Professionally Coren has been a stout and consistent defender of Israel and the Jewish community in both Israel and Canada. If our good Rabbi had even done the most superficial of investigation into Coren before the interview he never would have stuck a major foot in his mouth as he clearly did by accusing Coren of anti-Semitism. Everyone, but the most bigoted Roman Catholic hater or hater of Coren, knows that our good Rabbi Boteach owes Coren a major public apology. http://backofthebook.ca/2012/02/23/rabbi-boteach-schools-michael-coren/6045/