What is the biggest threat to Canadian Jewry?

What do you think the biggest threat to Canadian Jewry is in 2008?

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Maybe the Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist groups -- and their plans for operations against Jewish targets in Canada?

Maybe it's a political threat, like the Canadian Islamic Congress, led by the anti-Semite, Mohamed Elmasry. Or maybe the Canadian Arab Federation, which tried to blackball Bob Rae's candidacy for the leadership of the Liberals, because Rae's wife is Jewish.

Maybe it's not even a hostile threat, but just entropy -- Jews intermarrying and losing the faith; or the high cost of Jewish day schools.

And for Leo Adler of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the biggest threat to Canadian Jewry is an ageing hippie and former rock musician named Milton Kapner. As the name suggests, Kapner is Jewish. And he's American. According to a story in the Boston Globe, he's homeless, and lives in his Buick (click here and scroll down).

Kapner has gone a little nuts, so he calls himself Brother Nathanael. Check out that glove -- that's my favourite touch, along with the 220-volt beard.

Here's a clip of him doing his thing: 

Not everyone likes his dancing. Apparently, a ski resort kicked him out for being too weird. Here are some of the ski bums lamenting the departure of Kapner:

Gentle reader, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that Kapner might be crazy, but that I'm even crazier for saying that the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named for the great Nazi hunter, has made Kapner their top priority for their donors' money. Wiesenthal was instrumental in capturing top Nazis who escaped after the Second World War, like Adolf Eichmann. Surely the institution that bears his name hasn't gone so, uh, crazy as to think Kapner is a threat.

But reader, you'd be wrong. Kapner's crazy, but he has an excuse: he's crazy. The Simon Wiesenthal Center and their brave leader, Leo Adler, are crazy for saying Kapner is a threat.

But Adler put out a proud press release declaring his great victory over Kapner -- making Kapner move his anti-Semitic, conspiracy theory website to a different Internet company.

So what do you think Kapner's reaction would be? I'm guessing: to dance and laugh. He's stared down death threats; I think he can handle a blowhard bagman like Adler.

Jewish donors to the Simon Wiesenthal Center? Well, depending on how much money they've flushed down Adler's toilet, I'm guessing they're laughing or crying.

hat tips to Five Feet of Fury and Blazing Cat Fur