A lot of people dislike Sarah Silverman for her potty mouth or Lenny Bruce-ian form of throwing light on prejudice. I happen to like her a lot, find her comedy whip-smart; and of course she’s many Jewish boys’ dream girl. Like all good cultural Jews, she’s also a liberal. In the following video she pulls no punches going after the stupid new “voter registration” laws being promulgated in the U.S. to politically dispossess those already socially dispossessed. WARNING: there’s some pretty foul language in the video, certainly NSFW and unsuitable for kids, but it’s damn funny.

The website she’s referring to at the end is this one.

But I’ve filed this post under “Jews behaving badly” because at The Jewish Press.com, Yaakov Rosenblatt, a self-righteous rabbi and purveyor of kosher meats, goes after her video in “An open letter to Sarah Silverman.” (The piece describes Rosenblatt as an Orthodox “youth rabbi in Dallas” who “‘tends the flock,’ literally and figuratively, as CEO of A.D. Rosenblatt Kosher Meats, LLC.”)

It’s an egregious and embarrassing piece, with Rosenblatt patting Silverman’s head with one hand while smacking her mouth with the other:

If I were to be gratuitous, I would say you mock what is imperfect because you know what perfect should look like and you seek the ultimate perfection. But I won’t be so gratuitous. You are in show biz. I am in the rabbi biz. You entertain people. I serve people. I believe I have your number. You will soon turn 42 and your destiny, as you stated, will not include children. You blame it on your depression, saying you don’t want to pass it on to another generation. I find that confusing, coming from someone as perceptive as you are in dissecting flawed arguments. Surely you appreciate being alive and surely, if the wonder of your womb were afflicted with your weaknesses and blessed with your strengths, it would be happy to be alive, too. You said you wouldn’t get married until gay people can. Now they can. And you still haven’t married. I think, Sarah, that marriage and childrearing are not in the cards for you because you can’t focus on building life when you spend your days and nights tearing it down. You have made a career making public that which is private, making crude that which is intimate, making sensual that which is spiritual. You have experienced what traditional Judaism taught long ago: when you make sex a public thing it loses its potency. When the whisper is replaced with a shout there is no magic to speak about. And, in my opinion, Sarah, that is why you have had trouble forging a permanent relationship – the most basic desire of the feminine soul.

And he ends with this bit of God-inspired advice:

You are driven. You are passionate. I pray that you channel your drive and direct your passion to something positive, something that will make you a better and more positive person, something that will allow you to touch eternity and truly impact the world forever. I pray that you pursue marriage and, if you are so blessed, raise children.

Great God! Did somebody say this in 2012? “The most basic desire of the feminine soul”? Well, I suspect that women do have genes that give them a desire to reproduce, just as do men—after all, the end of all natural selection is to pass on your DNA. But to criticize a woman for not fulfilling their genetic “destiny”—in Rosenblatt’s case the same as their “God-given destiny”—is insane. One of the great achievements of feminism was to dispel the notion that a woman must have children to be of any value.

Sarah’s father, Donald Silverman, comes to her defense in the comments, but the real action is from the other Jews, especially females, who rip Rosenblatt a new sphincter for his sexism.

h/t: Michael