Rabbi/Mohel Romi Cohen Endorses Erick Salgado

Erick Salgado's speech start at 7:23

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Erick Salgado, the only conservative candidate running in the Democratic Mayoral Primary, has been endorsed by Rabbi Romi Cohen.

Rabbi Cohen, a respected leader in the Jewish community who has performed over 30,000 brisos, said, “I know one person who has in mind family values, ethics, morals and religious freedom, and this is Erick Salgado. He not only understands it, but is willing to fight for it.”

Beyond just endorsing Salgado, Rabbi Cohen issued this statement to the community, “It’s the obligation of every person, who’s concerned about the future of New York and the future of our lives and our children, to elect a person like Erick Salgado.”

Salgado thanked Rabbi Cohen saying, “I am most honored to have received Rabbi Cohen’s endorsement.  Rabbi Cohen is a community leader who has gained the trust of tens of thousands of parents over his long career one family at a time.  His sending out the message that community members should vote for me is especially meaningful.”

Salgado pointed out that, “My accent might be strange. My accent might be different. But my values are very similar to those of the Jewish community. I believe in a big family structure, in G-d Almighty, in family and in tradition. And that’s what separates me from the rest of the candidates.”

“Many of the candidates are very liberal and they mock us because we believe in G-d, because we believe in our religion.  We have to show them that we stand united, unwilling to compromise our beliefs and dedicated to maintaining the traditions we are required to follow.  City Hall must not interfere,” Salgado added.

Salgado has previously received public support from other leading rabbonim including Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Nelkenbaum, Rosh Yeshiva of Mir;  Rabbi Israel Portugal, Grand Rabbi of Skulen; Rabbi Auziel Admony, of B’nai Yosef;  Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim, Av Beis Din, Rav Kehillah Yotzei Mashad, and YU Rosh Yeshiva; Rabbi Yisrael Neuman, Lakewood, Beis Medresh Gevoah Rosh Yeshiva; Rabbi Moshe Green, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva D’monsey; Rabbi Shlomo Tzvi Stern, Debreziner; Rav Khal Yesodai Hatorah; Rabbi Amram Klein, Ungar Rav; Rabbi (Samuel) Shmuel Dovid Krausz, Udvari Rav and Rabbi Beni Rachmanov, a student of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim and a leader in the Queens Bucharan community.

Video Of Rabbis Supporting Erick Salgado For Mayor

for Video of Rav Nelkenbaum's speech click here

Video of Rabbi Auziel Admony, Rabbi Beni Rachmanov, and Rabbi Romi Cohen (7:10) a Holocaust survivor and noted mohel. plus Ruben Diaz

Text of Rabbi Romi Cohen's speech
After World War 2, my country was Czechoslovakia, I was fighting the Nazis in the forests with the partisans, a unit of 250 men, and 25 of us survived, there's no one who was not injured.  I had the highest decorations which the could be give, for freeing the countries from the Nazis. I was very comfortable in my old county, all my friends had very high positions in government, I had open door where ever I went, and I decided to leave that country and decided to come to America. And I came here for only 1 reason because the Constitution provides freedom of religion. Unfortunately we just experienced the last few months, it's not really so.  The City of New York, the largest city in the world, having a mayor who is Jewish, his name is Bloomberg, and he came out with full force, with all his might, to fight religion, to deny circumcisions, which is a fundamental, the most important, basic of Judaism, and he is fighting it with all his might.  He came introduced a law, not to be able properly complete the Mitzva of Bris Milah (circumcision) with all kind of pretexts, blood libel, lies.  It's unheard of a Jewish mayor, the largest Jewish population in the world (the city of New York) and came out against; fighting god, fighting religion.  He was fighting, he was the main force fighting for homosexuality he was fighting for (some one called out toeivah).  We all know our bible, we know there was the flood in Noach's time, the world was wiped out (it was the great flood) and the final nail in the coffin was when they legalized homosexuality.  It shows you the demorality of our mayor, is something which you know, which is zero.  Therefore it's obligation to every decent person, if it's Jewish, or Christian or Muslim, any American who has a little bit of decency himself, has to make sure we don't get another Bloomberg, make sure we have a person like Erick (rest is obscured by clapping)

Check of Rabbi Auziel Admony a Talmid of Rav Haim Benoliel.

 

Rosh Yeshiva Of Mir, Rav Avrohom Yaakov Nelkenbaum Gives A Shiur On Why It's A Mitvah To Vote For Morality

Last night there was a fundraiser for mayor candidate Erick Salgado.

The rabbis who spoke were as follows:

The first speaker was the Mir Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Avrohom Yaakov Nelkenbaum, who missed seder to speak.

 He applied the Gemara in Shabbos daf 54B (kol me sheyaish biyado limchos, veainoh moche, nitfas beoso avon  If someone has it in his power to protest and prevent someone from doing a transgression and he doesn't, he's also punished for that transgression) to voting for pro morality candidates.

 He provided an additional insight, based on a vort from Rav Shmuel Berenbaum ZT"L, on the Rashi in Netzavim (Dev. 29:16-17) "vatiru es shkutiem v'ais gelulahem" - "and you saw the their disgusting thing and dung like idols... (and you'll be draw after those idolatries).  Rav Shmuel asked: why would you be drawn after such disgusting things?  He explained that when you see other people doing things - even disgusting things - you think that if everybody else is doing it, then there must be something to it.  So too, we, in the Jewish community, are affected by our surroundings.

He ended by reminding people that both Bob Turner and David Storobin "had no chance", but God runs the world - and they won.


The next speaker was Rabbi Auziel Admony, assistant Rabbi of Bnai Yosef Torah Center, who spoke. He said "This is not considered a political event. It's a religion issue. It's a religious obligation
to be here tonight and support the campaign of Mr. Salgado."  Afterwords Rabbi Admony gave Erick a 100$ check for his campaign.

The next speaker was Rabbi Beni Rachmanov, a Bukharian Rabbi in Queens. He compared Jews in America today to Jews in Spain before the expulsion.

Finally Rabbi Romi Cohen a Holocaust survivor and noted mohel described how he came to this country - specifically because the first amendment guarantees freedom of religion - a liberty currently under assault.  He ended off by describing Mishkav Zachar as the avariah of the flood (Bereishis Rabbah 26-9)
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Erick Salgado with the Mir Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Avrohom Yaakov Nelkenbaum