Posted on 09/09/2005 5:45:21 AM PDT by OESY
Pity Larry Lowenthal. His job as executive director of the Boston branch of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) includes finding and training leaders from among the 700,000 Russian Jews who have immigrated to the U.S. in the last 30 years. Mr. Lowenthal has fared well: Today there are Russians helping to guide a number of major Jewish organizations, like the one called Boston for Israel. But now these immigrants turn out to be … oh no! Republicans!
To judge by his public statements and writings, Mr. Lowenthal's idea of a faithful Jew is someone who opposes the nomination of Judge John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, supports gay rights, abortion and euthanasia, and demands a strong separation of church and state. After all, as Mr. Lowenthal concluded approvingly in a July op-ed for the Jewish Advocate, Jews are "the most liberal" and "the least religious people in America."
Imagine his consternation when an avalanche of emails from Russian Jews began to pour in to the Web site of the Jewish Russian Telegraph, a daily blog, in response to his article. About 100 people wrote to say that Mr. Lowenthal needed to stop making "outrageous statements" on behalf of people whom he doesn't represent.
Alex Koifman, who arrived in the U.S. from Belarus in 1978, and whom Mr. Lowenthal trained...: "Since when are these concerns [abortion, gay rights, and church-state separation] concerns that are specific to the Jewish community? These are the Left's concerns."...
Their sympathy toward Republicans is more a result of their experience in Russia. Sept. 11 reminded them of Islamist attacks in their homeland; they liked President Bush's personal strength in response to Islamic fundamentalism, which seemed to them like Ronald Reagan's stand against communism....
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Sweet. Bad news for the Jackass Party and good news for the good guys!
I've been a Republican Jew since I could vote, save for a few years early on when I was not very political and kinda mushy. It's so ingrained in me that I find it very difficult to understand liberal Jews. But I come from a family of mostly GOP Jews, so I was lucky to be properly educated in the politics of reality.
That's why they're Republicans
As Larry Lowenthal is finding out, not all of America's Jews have confused socialism with social justice.
He is also discovering his weltanschaung is parochial, limited to NYC and the Jewish Strip centered from Palm Beach County to Broward County.
What he hasn't yet accepted, but must know deeply suppressed in some recess of his brain, is that his beliefs are succinctly describable as Communism Lite.
The Poor Dear - as my mother used to condescendingly refer to such as Lowenthal. This intellectual apologist for socialism is unhappily realizing not all Jews share his intellectual and philosophical delusions.
Never could understand why Jews support the anti Israel party.
brighton beach in brooklyn: alot of russian jews, extremely republican
I, too, am a Republican Jew (born and raised in Texas) and come from a family of Republican Jews. I've been a Republican from the first day that I could vote and have worked on several Republican campaigns (Goldwater, Reagan, Bush). Everyone be advised, not all Jews are Liberal idiots!
I, too, am a Republican Jew (born and raised in Texas) and come from a family of Republican Jews. I've been a Republican from the first day that I could vote and have worked on several Republican campaigns (Goldwater, Reagan, Bush). Everyone be advised, not all Jews are Liberal idiots!
Well put.
please see something I wrote on FR a while back called "The Jewish vote explained crystal clear"
only good news........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271899/posts
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Could someone provide a screen name and password or else post the remainder of the story? It looks delicious.
As a Republican Jew, I've suggested several times within party circles that local GOP leaders rev up their outreach efforts in regard to Soviet Jewish immigrants in areas where they could be a significant voting bloc. As relative newcomers, these Soviet Jews are just beginning to get their feet wet in American politics, and their is a natural synergy between their experience and outlook on the one hand and the GOP's history and message on the other.
"Their sympathy toward Republicans is more a result of their experience in Russia. Sept. 11 reminded them of Islamist attacks in their homeland"
The other factor I think is that Russians having experienced the dangers of the Utopian dream, of the nanny state, are more conservative and want smaller government and revel in opportunities for self-achievment.
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