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 Top Ten People of 2006: #7 In the world of ecumenical relations, few can match the courage and achievements of the Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Levin. For more than a quarter of a century, this energetic religious leader has fought for pro-life and pro-life family values across the globe, uniting peoples of many faiths, emerging as a hero in the ongoing "culture wars."
Now just over 52, hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the father of nine children -- and grandfather of two -- Rabbi Levin is one of the best-known and most respected Orthodox Jewish leaders in America.
For many years, he has been a special representative of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the US and Canada, and the Rabbinical Alliance of America, with a joint membership of 1,000 rabbis, representing the philosophy of more than 2 million Orthodox and traditional Jews worldwide. read more... Photo: Pro-life Rabbi Yehuda Levin with Pope John Paul II
Rabbi Levin Speaks To 1.5 Million Italians Turn Out in Massive Rome Protest Against Homosexual Civil Unions By Gudrun Schultz  Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi decided to attend the event when he saw an anti-Catholic cartoon about "Family Day" in the Communist Il Manifesto. Speaking out against those who claim to be Catholic while holding positions in opposition to Church teaching, Berlusconi said, "Left-wing Catholics are an insurmountable contradiction."
"You cannot be at the same time Catholics - and as such considerate of the doctrine of the Church and its teachings on various questions - and then stand with those who are cheek by jowl on the other side."
He went on, "In these recent times there is an attack on the freedom of the Church to express its own convictions. There comes to my mind what happened in the Communist countries, the Church of silence that could speak only within the ambit of its own buildings." (Translation by Fr. Zuhlsdorf.)
More than 1,000 U.S. rabbis joined in solidarity with pro-family demonstrators in Rome--Rabbi Yehuda Levin, with the Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, sent a statement of support and solidarity to organizers of the Rome event and the Warsaw pro-family Congress.
Rabbi Levin applauded "the millions of morally decent family orientated Italians who utterly reject any legislative efforts to accord recognition to homosexual unions." read more...
Rabbi Levin Speaks on Vatican Radio 01/02/07 |
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