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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Says
Mehmet Oz’s Senate Run Is
‘Tragedy for the Jewish People’
BY RON KAMPEAS | JTA.ORG
T he enduring bond between
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and
Dr. Mehmet Oz, forged under
the supervision of Oprah Winfrey, has
long been known as a textbook exam-
ple of the Winfrey doctrine that we can
all get along.

But the friendship has fractured amid
Oz’s bid for Senate in Pennsylvania,
where he is running a campaign that
Boteach says is “a tragedy for the Jewish
people.” Aft er enthusiastically welcom-
ing Oz’s candidacy a year ago, Boteach
says he is upset that his old friend,
who has been endorsed by Donald
Trump, appeared until recently to have
endorsed the former president’s lie that
he won the 2020 election.

Boteach also is upset that Oz’s cam-
paign has made an issue of a stroke
that the Democratic nominee, JoÚ
Fetterman, had several months ago,
and that Oz, a dual Turkish-American
citizen, will not call the 1915 Ottoman
massacre of Armenians a “genocide,”
as many scholars have concluded it
was. “Th e man running for Senate is not
Dr. Oz. Th is person is unrecognizable
to me,” Boteach told Rolling Stone. Oz,
he said, has become an “election-deny-
ing, genocide-denying caricature of an
extremist.” Boteach made the comments to
Rolling Stone in a story posted on
Sept. 20 that expands on critical com-
ments the celebrity rabbi has previ-
ously outlined. Rolling Stone also
published excerpts from private emails
that Boteach sent to the Oz campaign
imploring it to change course, to no
avail. Boteach, a Republican, will not
endorse Oz’s opponent, Democrat
JoÚ Fetterman, but was especially
off ended by the Oz campaign’s attacks
on Fetterman for having had a stroke.

Boteach’s father died of a stroke at the
beginning of the pandemic.

“Anyone who has a modicum of self
respect will condemn the actions of
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tim, especially when it’s the campaign
of America’s most famous doctor,”
Boteach wrote last month in an email
to Oz and the campaign.

Oz, a physician who became famous
through TV talk shows, met Boteach,
an Orthodox rabbi who has advised
multiple celebrities including Michael
Jackson and Roseanne Barr.

“Dr. Oz and I became colleagues
back in 2008 when we both worked
for Oprah Winfrey on the Oprah and
Friends Radio Network,” Boteach wrote
in the Jerusalem Post in December,
lauding Oz’s bid for the Senate. “Th ere
were so many special and legendary
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