Hysterical 'Anne Frank Center' Chief Steps Down To Become A Rabbi

The firebrand executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, which came to prominence this year through social media attacks on President Trump, has abruptly stepped down from the organization to become a rabbi.

Steven Goldstein's resignation, announced online September 8, was sudden.

So proud of our Exec Director @StvenGoldstein, who transformed our org and returns full-time to rabbinical school on Monday. His statement: pic.twitter.com/n5VmESaGEZ

— Anne Frank Center (@AnneFrankCenter) September 8, 2017

...Goldstein informed the board that he would be leaving to attend rabbinical school only a few weeks ago. On Twitter, the organization said September 8 that they had learned a week earlier that he would be enrolling in rabbinical school. Goldstein wrote the same day that he had made the decision while on vacation in late August.

He started classes Monday at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a little-known rabbinical seminary in Yonkers, New York.

"Helping to lead the resistance takes a toll," Goldstein wrote in a statement announcing his departure. "This has been grueling. At some point, you ask yourself, can I have my life back?"

Goldstein is still listed as executive director on the group's website. After this story was first published, Goldstein spoke with the Forward, describing how he had been run down by his time leading the organization. "I was simply exhausted," he said. "I feel the weight of the world off my shoulders, because I was working from 5 A.M. to 1 A.M. twittering, because Donald Trump was twittering."