THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

the collusion is energetic and the pool of NA leaders is relatively small - the situation we have
in the Jewish community - it produces what I call the network effect: the same handful of
names and phrases keep turning up in an unexpected variety of places and contexts, signaling
a covert connection. Earlier, I showed how the network effect can be used to spot NA
missionaries in the Jewish community. The effect is even stronger in the smaller orthodox
community.]
5a. Rabbi Irving ("Yitz") and Blu Greenberg: No other "change agents" can match the
credibility and influence attained in the orthodox community by this husband-wife team.
Between them are so many credentials, chairmanships, speaking tours and books that an entire
section could be devoted to them. [We'll have to settle for a small sample.]
The main thing worthy of the reader's attention is the strategy employed by both Greenbergs.
When speaking in the orthodox world, they themselves stick to statements which are
sometimes daring but always kept within boundaries acceptable to orthodoxy. As a result,
they are viewed as representing the orthodox community in many Jewish frameworks,
including Bnai Brith, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hadassah and various university
courses on Judaism. For an example of Blu's "kosher" statements, one can pick up one of her
excellent books, _How to Run a Jewish Household_, or read her statements as President of
the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. When speaking to a wider, more receptive audience,
however, they hint at their agenda but take care to use terminology which cannot be pinned
down as subversive. In time-honored NA fashion, they use ambiguous code words which are
interpreted in different ways by initiated and uninitiated listeners. Examples are seen in the
context of "dialog" with the Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama. [This purposeful ambiguity
used by many "change agents" is exemplified in the NA universal prayer, "The Great
Invocation".] Clearer hints of the Greenbergs' NA sympathies are found in those leading the
organizations they have founded and still help to steer - while the well-groomed and
charismatic personalities are publicly promoting NA teaching, Blu and Yitz remain nearly
invisible in a background supportive role.
[Watch for this methodology used by others, which is tremendously successful in preserving
an image of respected orthodox leadership. Don't just analyze their public pronouncements -
check the views of the editors whose magazines feature their articles, the philosophies of the
educational facilities inviting them to lecture, the beneficiaries of the fundraisers they attend,
whose Boards they serve on. If you find mutually exclusive identities being silently
supported by the same person, you can suspect either a NA infiltrator or someone about to be
humiliated by his/her own naivete. There are cases where a respected name in the community
is recruited for simple PR value, and he/she lends support based on a superficial review of an
enterprise which seems to have good references. Community leaders, please take personal
responsibility to check the affiliations and worldviews of a group before you let them use
your good name. It is no longer enough to know that some other reputable leader has
endorsed them - for all you know, your colleague may be totally relying on the endorsement
which preceded his... and so on... back to the "change agent" who benefits from all of you!]
The best evidence of the Greenbergs' true inner orientation is the ease with which they team
up with overt NA leaders and organizations: they seem to see no problem with teaching,
writing and otherwise working for the success of enterprises totally at variance with
monotheism - not to mention orthodox Judaism. Only on rare occasions are they found
"slipping": personally espousing views that would be considered heretical by the orthodox
community. Such stray quotes are not given wide coverage. An example is one of Blu's
comments in the _Genesis_ PBS TV series, where like Arthur Waskow she "re-invents"