i would like to point out to David Grotell, or any other JuBu, or just anybody who would like to know, buddhists do not worship Buddha per se. he is not a god idol. he was a prince who gave up his princeship. his name was Siddharta Guatama. if you do your research you will understand that having a statue or picture of buddha is not contradictory to the jewish religion, because he is not a god idol, he is just a regular person having reached true enlightenment and who preached the path to enlightenment to others.

I just finished reading a book entitled, “Letters to a Buddhist jew” written by Dr. Akiva Tatz and David Gottlieb. The book is basically a discussion between the two clarifying what are positions of Buddhism (Gottlieb is a Buddhist Jew) and those of Judaism and do they go together and how.
It was a very interesting book and I recommend it for anyone interested in this phenomenon of Buddhist Jews.

David Grotell ought to not worry.  If he sets a statue of Buddha up next to a Jewish religious relic he can expect that the Buddha will fall on its face.  When he sets it back he can be sure it will fall on its face again, and not only that, but Buddha’s head and arms will fall off.  This joke comes to you from 1 Samuel 5:2-4.

For more religious satire go to

http://www.godisajoke.com/