Dishonest Catholic Bill Donohue reported the death of Rabbi Aryeh Spero in his June 26 column published at Newsmax:
Rabbi Aryeh Spero passed away on June 25.
I knew him for decades and consider him to be one of the most brilliant and brave men I have ever known.
Kind and thoughtful, he was a stalwart in the conservative movement.
He was also a good friend of Catholics.
Aryeh was often called “America’s rabbi.”
Probably not by actual Jewish people, though. We remember Spero as an occasional columnist for the now-defunct CNSNews.com who, as Donohue touted, put right-wing politics before his religious calling (though Donohue probably meant it as a complement) by slobbering over Donald Trump and spreading lies about Barack Obama. We also caught him being hypocritical about Holocaust comparisons, framing right-wing talking points into “prayers” and portraying George Soros as a Jew right-wingers are allowed to hate.
Donohue went on to gush further over Spero’s political activism:
As an Orthodox rabbi, Aryeh took great umbrage when a gay rabbi who claimed to be Orthodox held a same-sex ceremony in 2011.
Aryeh was one of 100 distinguished Orthodox rabbis to register his objections.
Ever the activist, in 2019 Aryeh led a sit-in at Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office.
He did so in response to Pelosi’s warm embrace of anti-Jewish Democrats, Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
Donohue concluded: “A man like Aryeh doesn’t come around too often. It was my pleasure to have known him.” Donohue certainly likes people to exploit their faith as a political cudgel.