Pro-Clinton rabbi booted from Bernie Sanders event for being too pro-Clinton https://t.co/y1NRV4lZ7v pic.twitter.com/fyC6d6Gvyz

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) April 17, 2016

NEW YORK - Rabbi Sara Luria wasn’t sure why she was called to participate in a panel discussion on faith and social justice with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders just 45 minutes before it was to start.

Turns out she was a last-minute substitute for Rabbi Andy Bachman, who was scheduled to participate in the Saturday-night Sanders campaign event at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights but was unceremoniously uninvited shortly before it was to begin.

The leading New York rabbi — formerly the spiritual leader of Brooklyn’s Congregation Beth Elohim and now director of Jewish content and community ritual at the 92nd Street Y — was dumped from the program for recent tweets favoring Sanders’ opponent Hillary Clinton.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.714843

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