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David Floyd Nesenoff〔 (born 1960) is an American rabbi, independent filmmaker, singer/songwriter of contemporary Jewish music,〔〔 and blogger.〔〔 His short films have been shown at various festivals including Sundance and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. He has directed a full-length movie and was a principal in a film production company. In the 1990s, he counseled youths who had committed bias crimes.〔 He came to national attention as an expert and counselor regarding bias crimes, and worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department Justice in the Denny's Restaurant racial discrimination case. Later, he served as an intervention consultant to Mel Gibson when Gibson was accused of anti-semitism.〔 He gained national attention in June 2010 when he posted to his website a video he had made of opinion columnist Helen Thomas making controversial statements about Israel. Over the next several days, the video went viral, Thomas resigned her job over this, and Nesenoff received what he initially said were over 25,000 pieces of hate mail, including several death threats.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rabbi Nesenoff's 25,000 Pieces of Hate Mail )〕〔 Nesenoff himself has been interviewed and quoted in ''The New York Times'', has written a column published in ''The Washington Post'',〔 and has appeared on Fox News and CNN's Reliable Sources program. He maintains a website, RabbiLIVE.com, which features short videos clips and articles about Israel, interviews with rabbis, and his notable interview of opinion columnist Helen Thomas.〔〔 He has identified his politics as pro-Israel, and has said he is uncertain whether he will continue to be a liberal and a Democrat. ==Early life and education== Nesenoff was born and raised on Long Island, New York, one of four children of Goldie, an art teacher and musician who plays the mandolin in community orchestras, and Norman Nesenoff, an electrical engineer and the founder of CES Industries.〔〔 At age 14 Nesenoff attended an agricultural high school in Ashkelon, Israel for one year.〔 He attended Yeshiva University as an undergraduate,〔 studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for one year when he was in graduate school,〔 and received a master's degree and rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Nesenoff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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