Marvin Stuart Antelman (January 10, 1933 – September 11, 2013) was an American-Israeli rabbi, chemist, and conspiracy theorist.
Birth and residence
Marvin Stuart Antelman was born January 10, 1933, in Camden, New Jersey, to husband and wife Harry and Anna Antelman (both born in Romania), who were proprietor and finisher, respectively, of retail furs.
In 1990 he resided in Providence, RI and in 2000, the Boston suburb of Weymouth.
Author of chemistry encyclopedias
Antelman authored two encyclopedias: ''The analytical encyclopedia of thermoplastic materials'' (1974)
and ''The encyclopedia of chemical electrode potentials'' (New York, 1982; as of July 2020 this latter book had 359 records in Worldcat
and 181 academic citations).
Patents
Antelman's U.S. patents number approximately fifteen. Many of them involve
mixed-valence complex
Mixed valence complexes contain an element which is present in more than one oxidation state. Well-known mixed valence compounds include the Creutz–Taube complex, Prussian blue, and molybdenum blue. Many solids are mixed-valency including ...
metal oxides and their application to skin conditions or cancers, and/or as antimicrobials or water treatments.
Patent 5,676,977
In 1996 Antelman filed U.S. Patent 5,676,977, "Method of curing AIDS with tetrasilver tetroxide molecular crystal devices." The patent claims the ability to cure
AIDS with a single injection of tetrasilver tetroxide (trademarked Tetrasil by Marantech Holding Company, LLC). In 2001 he filed an improvement on to patent 5,676,977 that minimized side effects such as
hepatotoxicity
Hepatotoxicity (from ''hepatic toxicity'') implies chemical-driven liver damage. Drug-induced liver injury is a cause of acute and chronic liver disease caused specifically by medications and the most common reason for a drug to be withdrawn fr ...
by slowing the rate of injection. The tetrasilver tetroxide patents claim that some clinical trials were performed in Honduras.
Responses to Patent 5,676,977 have ranged from the neutral, namely those who note that a
patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A ...
doesn't mean the device works or is effective, but rather only reserves the intellectual and property right of the inventor of something with some degree of plausibility - to those who decry it as utter quackery, to those who claim it cures AIDS or eliminates HIV and is being censored and suppressed by
Big Pharma and governments. Nevertheless, it has received a considerable attention and discussion in social media due to memes and videos with captions like "AIDS CURE FOUND! U.S. Patent # 5676977."
Works in religion and politics
In March 1961 the New England Region of the
NCSY
NCSY (formerly known as the National Conference of Synagogue Youth) is a Jewish youth group under the auspices of the Orthodox Union. Its operations include Jewish-inspired after-school programs; summer programs in Israel, Europe, and the United ...
was formed, and its records list "First Youth Commission Chair: Dr. Marvin Antelman a”h."
In 1971, Antelman was one of the founders of the
Jewish Survival Legion (JSL), which split with the
Kahanist
Kahanism () is an extremist Jewish ideology based on the views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party in Israel. Kahane maintained the view that the majority of Arabs living in Israel are enemies of Jews an ...
organization
Jewish Defense League
The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a Jewish far-right religious-political organization in the United States and Canada, whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary". It has been classified as "a right wi ...
in order to solve many of the same problems confronted by the JDL but to do so in a way "within the framework of the law." The JSL was affiliated with the nationalist and
religious Zionist
Religious Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת דָּתִית, translit. ''Tziyonut Datit'') is an ideology that combines Zionism and Orthodox Judaism. Its adherents are also referred to as ''Dati Leumi'' ( "National Religious"), and in Israel, the ...
groups
Herut
Herut ( he, חֵרוּת, ''Freedom'') was the major conservative nationalist political party in Israel from 1948 until its formal merger into Likud in 1988. It was an adherent of Revisionist Zionism.
History
Herut was founded by Menachem Begin ...
and
Betar.
In 1976 in a New York Hilton hotel hall Antelman as Chief Justice of his
Supreme Rabbinic Court of America (SRCA) presided with four other rabbinic judges and performed a solemn
excommunication
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to end or at least regulate the communion of a member of a congregation with other members of the religious institution who are in normal communion with each other. The purpose ...
of
Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...
from Judaism, on account of anti-Jewish and anti-American actions that the Council alleged. The audience reaction is reported to have been very intense and that for many of the audience members it was the first time they had witnessed an actual excommunication. The story was later picked up by and reported in other American and international weeklies including the
National Enquirer
The ''National Enquirer'' is an American tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1926, the newspaper has undergone a number of changes over the years.
The ''National Enquirer'' openly acknowledges that it pays sources for tips, a common practice in tabl ...
and
Paris Match
''Paris Match'' () is a French-language weekly news magazine. It covers major national and international news along with celebrity lifestyle features.
History and profile
A sports news magazine, ''Match l'intran'' (a play on '' L'Intransigeant ...
In November 1982 Antelman's Beit Din excommunicated hundreds more Jews on account of co-signing a pro-PLO and pro-homosexual rights advertisement placed in the June 20 New York Times or for belonging to a certain group aligned with the ad. Antelman's court deemed this to be a promotion of Marxist views on Israel and sex and thus a collaboration with the enemies of Judaism and a treasonous act. The Washington Post article about the excommunication event describes "the mainstream Jewish community" as not regarding the ceremony seriously.
Regarding the
Sabbatean controversy involving Jacob Emden and Yonatan Eybeschütz, Antelman maintained a very decisive position upholding the 20 Sivan 1756
Council of Four Lands
The Council of Four Lands ( he, ועד ארבע ארצות, ''Va'ad Arba' Aratzot'') in Lublin, Poland was the central body of Jewish authority in Poland from the second half of the 16th century to 1764. The first known regulation for the Council ...
cherem (excommunication) against Eybeschütz and its ban of all his writings, and he published a book about it c. 1990 in Tel Aviv. He decries an "insidious ... cover-up of the excommunication of Rabbi
Jonathan Eybeschutz
Rav Yonatan Eybeschütz (רבי יהונתן אייבשיץ) (also Eibeschutz or Eibeschitz; 1690 1764) was a Talmudist, Halachist, Kabbalist, holding positions as Dayan of Prague, and later as Rabbi of the "Three Communities": Altona, Hambur ...
(1690-1764)" for "seduction to Sabbatian Frankist idolatry" and of the council's banning of Eybeschütz's books (Vol. 2 p. 7). Antelman's SRCA again cites this excommunication in its own declaration and excommunications.
Antelman is also known for promoting a novel ruling allowing a
beit din
A beit din ( he, בית דין, Bet Din, house of judgment, , Ashkenazic: ''beis din'', plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Biblical Land of Israel. Today, it ...
to serve a
Jewish divorce to a wife where the divorce is beneficial and the man is unwilling, on the basis that the court may perform a transaction on behalf of a man if it is to his benefit, and a book by him was published about this in 1994 in Tel Aviv.
To Eliminate the Opiate
In 1974 Antelman published Volume One of a book titled ''To Eliminate the Opiate.''
It has been called "the first well-presented history of the conspiratorial efforts to subvert and undermine Judaism."
Taking its name from Marx's
Opium of the people
The opium of the people (or opium of the masses) (german: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased statement of German sociologist and economic theorist Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium ...
statement about religion, the book claims to trace the roots and offshoots of
Sabbatean
The Sabbateans (or Sabbatians) were a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676),
a Sephardic Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah in 1666 by Nathan of Gaza.
Vast ...
,
Frankist
Frankism was a heretical Sabbatean Jewish religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on the leadership of the Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank, who lived from 1726 to 1791. Frank rejected religious norms and said that his fol ...
, and
Illuminati
The Illuminati (; plural of Latin ''illuminatus'', 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on ...
groups and their interrelationships in regard to the origin of
Marxist,
Communist, and geopolitical and financial forces that have been aimed at destroying religion, particularly
Judaism
Judaism ( he, ''Yahăḏūṯ'') is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people. It has its roots as an organized religion in t ...
and
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...
.
The book claims that these groups are loosely aligned but that they conspire to eliminate traditional Judaism and Christianity and install a secular, Marxist
tyranny a la Plato's Republic.
Antelman says what prompted him to write the book was a period of violent acts against religious Jews that resulted in the destruction of Boston's Jewish community between 1968 and 1971. He claimed that when he confronted and investigated these acts and their perpetrators he discovered them to be linked to and funded by Communist and other conspiratorial Marxist groups.
Volume 1 might not have received much attention or impact until the publication of Volume 2.
The latter was not published until 2002 due to, by Antelman's accounts therein (Introduction), fierce accusations of libel and so forth from the accusing individuals (notably, primarily, and initially
Elma Lewis
Elma Ina Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an American arts educator and the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and The Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She was one of the first recipients of a MacArt ...
(1921-2004)) that beset him resulting from the publication of Volume 1, and regarding these attacks he gave acknowledgement to God for giving him the strength and knowledge to fight them off in the secular courts. In this introduction he also states he was encouraged by the advice of a friend who told him God had allowed these attacks and challenges to be sent to him so that he should overcome them, and that with his Torah erudition he would surely be able to learn the legal codes and represent himself to defend against these attacks which would have otherwise caused him bankruptcy and ruin had he needed to hire lawyers in his defense.
[Antelman, Marvin S., To Eliminate the Opiate Vol. 2, 2002, Preface]
The cover of the book was designed by Antelman's wife Sylvia. ''To Eliminate the Opiate'' reports many rare, obscure, or
conspiracy theory type elements of
Sabbatean
The Sabbateans (or Sabbatians) were a variety of Jewish followers, disciples, and believers in Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676),
a Sephardic Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who was proclaimed to be the Jewish Messiah in 1666 by Nathan of Gaza.
Vast ...
and
Frankist
Frankism was a heretical Sabbatean Jewish religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on the leadership of the Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank, who lived from 1726 to 1791. Frank rejected religious norms and said that his fol ...
exploits.
Billy Jack Dial, a prominent
Noahide
Noahidism () or Noachidism () is a monotheistic Jewish religious movement based upon the Seven Laws of Noah and their traditional interpretations within Orthodox Judaism. According to the Jewish law, non-Jews ( Goyim) are not obligated to conv ...
leader, featured this book prominently on the front page of his website in 2006 and wrote, "These books are available at Shop.BnaiNoach.com
ow defunct and happen to be one of the most powerful resource of truth of all times. Here Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman confronts the evil empire with the revelation of truth, and defies all the conspiracy theories and transforms those theories into reality. These books will leave the reader shocked and awed as the cloak of secrecy is stripped off of the organizations and individuals who actively sought to bring harm to the Torah of G-d, and its followers."
Reception, Notability, Influences and Criticism
Volume 2, published in 2002 the midst of the
Second Intifada, received significant attention, particularly among
religious Zionists faced with external battles and with perceived internal betrayals from state of Israel leadership and failure of so-called peace processes. Following are some of the more notable attention and comments that the book received from prominent members of Israeli or Jewish press entities:
* In 2002 American-Israeli author
Barry Chamish wrote in his newsletter, "We all owe a huge debt to Rabbi Marvin Antelman, the first Jew to try to decipher the real conspiracy to destroy Jews and Judaism, which, as we all know, is in full swing today. Way back in 1974, before any of us had heard of the illuminati or the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR), Rabbi Antelman published his book To Eliminate The Opiate and exposed their covert war against religion, focusing on their battle plan to extinguish Judaism, but with great implications for Christianity as well. This book is now found on literally all the lists of classic conspiracy literature."
* In the June 20, 2006, episode of the syndicated radio program the
Tamar Yonah Show in which the American-Israeli investigative reporter Tamar Yonah probes "what are the forces driving world events," the bulk of the 46 minute show was dedicated to her in-studio "very, very, very, very special guest" Marvin Antelman and an interview about his book, along with some discussion regarding recent events and geopolitics. At minute 22 of the show before the commercial break she referred to the book as, "the famous book, classic book,''To Eliminate the Opiate''"
[Dr. Rabbi Marvin Antelman, interview on The Tamar Yonah show, June 20, 2006, 46 minutes. Syndicated at IsraelNationalRadio.com (Arutz Sheva, Channel 7) et. al.,][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tevb-fbbA58 An archive of the Tamar Yonah interview]
* A September 15, 2009, post urging the book as a must-read for all Jews, posted on JTF.org, a forum associated with the ultra-nationalist
Kahanist
Kahanism () is an extremist Jewish ideology based on the views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party in Israel. Kahane maintained the view that the majority of Arabs living in Israel are enemies of Jews an ...
group
Jewish Task Force, received 37 replies in the 32 days of the thread, and has been viewed at least 19,000 times according to the webpage as of Aug. 2022.
Over the years and to an increasing degree,
[An Aug. 2022 search for "To Eliminate the Opiate" in text contents of the Internet Archive showed only one or two archives from 1974 (the year of publication of volume one) to 2002 (the year of publication of volume 2) which had increased to 10 in both the years 2020 and 2021. https://archive.today/20220829185515/https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22To+Eliminate+the+Opiate%22&sin=TXT&page=4] the book has received many references by
conspiracy theory authors and groups and on blogs and social media of diverse unaffiliated groups ranging from those focusing on
Central Bank
A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union,
and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central b ...
s, to the origin of the
Illuminati
The Illuminati (; plural of Latin ''illuminatus'', 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on ...
, and from individuals of
religious Zionist
Religious Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת דָּתִית, translit. ''Tziyonut Datit'') is an ideology that combines Zionism and Orthodox Judaism. Its adherents are also referred to as ''Dati Leumi'' ( "National Religious"), and in Israel, the ...
persuasions to the Christian or secular, to the former
KKK Grand Wizard and far-right politician popularly known as an antisemite and white supremicist
David Duke
David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, convicted felon, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a membe ...
. For example:
* The highest-frequency author citing ''To Eliminate the Opiate'' in an August 2022 search of Internet Archive is
David Duke
David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right politician, convicted felon, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a membe ...
in archives of his books ''My Awakening'' (1998), ''Jewish Supremacy'' (2003), and ''The Secret Behind Communism'' (2013).
* Popular conspiracy theorist author
David Icke
David Vaughan Icke (; born 29 April 1952) is an English conspiracy theorist and a former footballer and sports broadcaster. He has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.
In 1990, Icke ...
's 2019 book about 9/11 "The Trigger," cites Antelman extensively in tracing the conspirators or antagonists that he calls "The Death Cult."
Participation in the 2004 attempt to revive the Sanhedrin, and surrounding controversies
The August 13, 2006, newsletter of the
Chabad
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic grou ...
-affiliated group JAHG-USA (Jews and Hasidic Gentiles – United to Save America), having domain name www.noahide.com, mentions in a complex "Subversion Alert" about the aspiring Sanhedrin body, that Rabbi Antelman, one of the body's founders, had resigned, "protesting the increasingly open R & B influence on the 'Sanhedrin.'" "R & B" in the newsletter refers to the Root and Branch Association which the newsletter accuses of being controlled by Communist forces and having Marxist agents. The newsletter claims that due to its earlier "exposure" of the R & B, Noahide leader Billy Jack Dial, whom the newsletter accuses of being an agent of the R & B, had resigned from the Sanhedrin's "
Noahide
Noahidism () or Noachidism () is a monotheistic Jewish religious movement based upon the Seven Laws of Noah and their traditional interpretations within Orthodox Judaism. According to the Jewish law, non-Jews ( Goyim) are not obligated to conv ...
Council" just a few weeks earlier. However, in 2006 Dial's website www.bnainoach.com was prominently featuring, endorsing and selling Antelman's two-volume set ''To Eliminate the Opiate'' on its home page.
Later life
Antelman was a
Religious Zionist
Religious Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת דָּתִית, translit. ''Tziyonut Datit'') is an ideology that combines Zionism and Orthodox Judaism. Its adherents are also referred to as ''Dati Leumi'' ( "National Religious"), and in Israel, the ...
and last lived in Israel, passing on Oct. 12 (8 Cheshvan), 2013.
[ The webpage has Sept. 11 as DOD but the tombstone photo shows Oct. 12]
References
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