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JEWS AGAINST ANTI-CHRISTIAN DEFAMATION

URGES BOYCOTT OF THE DA VINCI CODE

May 15, 2006
For Immediate Release
For More Information, Contact: Bryan Rudnick at (561) 499-3201 or Don Feder at (508) 405-1337

Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation today urged a boycott of The Da Vinci Code, scheduled to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and open in the U.S. on Friday.

“Director Ron Howard assures us that the film will be true to the book,” said JAACD President Don Feder. “That means it will be an insult to nearly a billion people worldwide.”

Feder commented: “As Jews, we’re in a unique position. While we don’t worship Jesus or pray in his name, we take exception to a work of fiction which trivializes the beliefs of our Christian friends and neighbors. The Da Vinci Code treats the life of Jesus like a soap opera.”

Dan Brown’s book, which sold more than 45 million copies in the U.S., also maligns Judaism.

Feder observes, “On page 309, Brown’s protagonist claims Jewish men visited the Holy Temple in Jerusalem to achieve ‘spiritual wholeness’ by having sex with ‘priestesses.’ The Torah absolutely condemns the ritual prostitution practiced by the Canaanites. To call Brown’s bizarre theory an attack on Judaism (and – by extension – Judeo Christian morality) is an understatement.”

Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation also notes the disturbing parallels between The Da Vinci Code and The Protocols Of The Elders of Zion. Feder: “Like The Protocols, The Code projects an international conspiracy to conceal the truth, in order to maintain control of humanity. In one case the conspirators are Jewish leaders and, in the other, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.”

Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation urges the public not to reward Hollywood bigotry by buying a ticket to The Da Vinci Code, but instead to treat it with the scorn it deserves by boycotting the Sony Pictures film.

Feder will speak at a press conference sponsored by The Interfaith Coalition Against The Da Vinci Code, on Wednesday, May 17 at 1:30 pm at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Speakers will include Dr. Ted Baehr of The Christian Film and Television Commission and Austin Ruse of The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute.

He will also appear on Fox News Live at 2:50 pm (EST) that day.

For more information on Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, visit our website, http://www.jews4fairness.org/.