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Alleged Mikva Voyeur Rabbi Falsely Claimed To Have Coined The Republican Catch Phrase “Family Values”

Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Rabbi Barry Freundel, who was arrested last week for allegedly secretly videotaping naked women preparing to immerse in his community’s mikvah (ritual bath), claims he created the Republican Party’s catch phrase ‘family values” and was the man behind the US Military’s don’t ask, don’t tell policy on homosexuality.

In one of his books, Contemporary Orthodox Judaism’s Response To Modernity, Freundel writes that an aide to then-VIce President Dan Quayle heard Freundel use the term in a Shabbat drasha (sermon) in his synagogue and the aide to her boss about it and included the term in a speech writen for Quayle. Quayle added in criticism of a Murphy Brown episode and the speech – and the term “family values” – became history.

On the Jewish Values Online…