‘Rabbi Rambo’ Gary Moskowitz is back. The former police officer and karate black belt—who we profiled in 2009, when he was advocating for arming synagogue members during High Holiday services (there’s video)—is now calling for Jews to defend themselves against the recent spate of so-called ‘knockout’ attacks in New York City.
Moskowitz appeared on CNN yesterday, where he made a few salient points (some people really are dangerously absorbed in their cell phones while walking) but mostly seemed a bit overzealous in his claims (Orthodox Jews might deserve a reputation of being weak, he posits, because “they don’t practice healthy living styles, they don’t eat right often, they don’t exercise regularly, they don’t study martial arts like their counterparts in the secular community”). And then he had CNN host Don Lemon come at him.
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