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The controversial "messianic rabbi" who joined Vice President Mike Pence to pay tribute to the victims of the Pittsburgh Massacre at a rally in Michigan would have been expelled from his congregation for defamation there are more than ten years.
Rabbi Loren Jacobs – who curiously quoted Jesus on Monday as saying a prayer for Jewish victims on Monday – was defrocked 15 years ago by the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, according to NBC News.
"In 2003, the UMJC had deposed Loren Jacobs from his rabbinical ordination, after our judicial council found him guilty of defamation," said a spokesman for the congregation's network.
The eviction of the rabbi seems to come from a dispute over the theological teachings and the role of Christian conversion to Judaism.
Jacobs' appearance at GOP congresswoman Lena Epstein's protest was initially criticized for invoking Messianic Judaism. The marginal sect believes that Jesus is the son of God – which is considered an offense for most Jews.
"There are more than 60 rabbis in Michigan and yet the only rabbi that the Michigan RNC could offer a prayer for the 11 Jewish victims in Pittsburgh at Mike Pence's rally was a local Jew for Jesus Rabbi?" tweeted Jason Miller, Rabbi of Detroit. "It's pathetic!"
Epstein, a GOP candidate and a member of a Detroit area synagogue, said this prayer was an effort of "unity."
"Any media or political competitor who attacks me or attacks the Vice President is guilty of denouncing religious intolerance," she said in a statement.
Pence is an "evangelical devotee" who describes herself as "Christian, conservative and republican in this order".
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