Matthew Finberg
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Matt's leadership role with the Jewish Defense League (as former chairman), and enthusiastic support of Kach and Kahane Chai activists is extensively documented in the "Stop Terror Colorado Internet Archive" [1]
An article on Colorado Indymedia also describes Finberg's 2005 Boulder hosting of Revava [2] activist Yisrael Meir Cohen, who the article describes as an "open terrorist." The article describes Revava as a terrorist movement in the following terms:
"Though Revava is careful not to directly call for violence because of Israel's strict incitement laws, they do make it clear enough that "anything goes" - "Every individual path is acceptable in order to guard the integrity of the Land of Israel..." Beyond the clear Kahanist position of the Revava group, it's co-founder, David Ha'ivri, is also closely allied with the famous Kahanist leader Yehuda Richter who resisted the Sinai pullout and moved on to opening fire on defenseless bus loads of people.' [3]
A poster on the forum for www.revava.org also claims that Matt has donated financially to Revava[4]:
Immediately after graduating from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania in 1980, Matt moved to Washington, DC where he earned a J.D. degree from George Washington University while also working as a CPA in the National Tax Office of one of the international accounting firms, specializing in partnership and real estate tax. He changed directions after passing the bar exam to practice tax, corporate, and real estate syndication law with 2 firms in Washington, DC for the next 7 years. Despite professional success, after 13 years in the nation's capital, Matt shook off the golden handcuffs, resigned his position, and moved to Boulder, Colorado to reinvent himself in the health and fitness oriented capital of the Rockies. He formed The Finberg Law Firm, P.C. in 1995 which has grown to 4 lawyers and a paralegal.
He became active in Boulder's conservative synagogue, and eventually became its president. Following his term, Matt became a Baal T’shuva seeking a deeper Jewish connection with the Divine and a life of applied Torah. He resonated most deeply with the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, ZT"L, and continues to strive to become a good Breslov Chassid. He then helped found and became president of a shul which focused on those teachings as well as those of Rabbi Sholmo Carlebach, ZT"L.
Matt’s love of and dedication to the Land of Israel ignited after the Oslo Accords, and he has been on fire, diligently working Torah-based Zionism with a Jewish fundamentalist mindset in the traditions of Rav Avraham Isaac Kook, ZT"L, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, The Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, ZT"L, Rabbi Meir Kahane, HY"D, and Rav Binyamin Kahane, HY"D. He has visited Israel 10 times in the past 4 years, and plans to make Aliyah with his wife in the summer of 2009.
Matt is a founding member of B'nai Elim, and currently serves as Chairman.
