HuffPo: “Glenn Beck: The Grinch Who Stole Yom Kippur”

Aaron Keyak — September 22, 2009 – 10:26 am | Republicans Comments (0) Add a comment

Yesterday, we posted a piece on The Huffington Post, “Glenn Beck: The Grinch Who Stole Yom Kippur.” It discusses what Fox News host Glenn Beck could have been thinking when he declared “a day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic” to take place on Yom Kippur.

Here’s how it begins:

Last April, a blogger asked if Glenn Beck is Jewish. If there were any doubt, Beck’s tweet from Rosh Hashanah morning (last Saturday and the start of the Jewish New Year) puts that to rest. At 10:37 a.m. on September 19th @GlennBeck tweeted:

Sept 28. Lets make it a day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic. Spread the word. Let us walk in the founders steps.

Instituting “a day of Fast and Prayer for the Republic” may not exceed Beck’s capacity as a Fox News talk show host, but co-opting Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, may be beyond even Beck’s highest powers.

In the spirit of Rosh Hashanah, I’ve sought to understand the thinking behind Beck’s decision and I have come up with three possible explanations.

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