Posted on 06/28/2016 9:57:54 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
NEW YORK – The liberal, Reform, Conservative and secular parts of the American Jewish community may become more distant from Israel as the country’s demography becomes more Orthodox and nationalistic, according to a report presented to the Cabinet on Sunday.
Results from the 12th Annual Assessment of the Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People, put together by The Jewish People Policy Institute, were offered by JPPI Co-Chairman Ambassador Dennis Ross and President Avinoam Bar-Yosef.
Bar-Yosef explained that while there is significant support for Israel in North America, it isn’t compensating for “the young generation of liberal and secular American Jews [which] is increasingly critical of the Jewish state, and concerned that Israeli society is becoming more religious and more right wing.
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Really? Didn’t they just have some huge gay day celebration? Don’t I see girls frolicking scantily-clad on the beach? Continuing advances in medicine and technology?
Well, except for the taxpayer-funded abortions for any reason, universal healthcare, and government caps on CEO pay.
Not only might they become more distant, but I have been shocked by some of the escalating and blatant anti-Semitism I’ve started seeing among Millenials in other corners of the internet.
There are elements of American Jewry which have essentially abandoned faith in God for secular and leftist causes. This was - and remains - a central tragedy of Jewish history — not only are they lost but some of them go over to the dark side ( not just politically but spiritually - joining patently evil, Satanic movements and even openly seeking, aiding, or abetting the mass- murder of the Jewish people. Also, some of them directly disobey their Jewish teachings by undermining the societies they are living in. While it is true that some Christians also exhibit these behaviors, it is perhaps even more tragic when a Jew does it ( because of the Jews’ smaller numbers to begin with). Think soros the self- proclaimed Athiest funder of evil causes — and a few miserable traitor politicians in Israel even today, etc.
American liberals identifying as Jewish aren’t Jewish at all.
They are liberals first, and everything else is just window dressing.
I wish we could trade all the religious muslims, and non-religious jews in this country for an equal amount of religious jews and non-religious “cultural secular non-practiciing muslim apostates”..
Bit my point is - there’s precious little the majority of the Jewish people can or should do about the article’s “alienation” of the secular leftist “jews” who have abandoned their great biblical and spiritual heritage. Israel and the faithful Jewish community do try to invite, encourage the return of the lost ones. A great deal of effort is put into this. A few do return. The rest , regrettably, stay lost. There’s nothing more that can properly be done for them — it is like asking the Catholic church to figure out how to redeem and save Nancy pelosi. Or the LDS church to solve Harry Reid’s spiritual problem. Or the baptists to save jimmy carter. When an apple goes bad, it’s often like when an egg breaks. Very difficult to repair.
That’s in Tel Aviv.
What’s in Tel Aviv?
Gay parades, bikinis etc. Not all of Israel goes for that.
Jerusalem has a gay pride parade and I sure other smaller towns do as well. And I’m sorry, photos from Israel show a totally modern society - women and men drinking in cafes, beach life, girls in the military with guns slung over their shoulders, abortions, etc. I don’t approve of most of this but that is modern-day Israel. American Jews are idiots.
There are Orthodox communities is Israel. Not all American Jews are idiots. In general, there are few absolutes in the world.
Well, I’m the one saying that Israel is much more pluralistic than you! Of course there are Orthodox communities there; but it is a modern society and like most has some tensions.
Wrong. As American Jews become less Jews and more something else, and join BDS and other anti-Jewish activities and organizations, Israelis become less interested in what the left has to say, both in the US and in Israel. This is a consequence of having been subjected to systematic murder by primitive subhuman thugs who support a mass-murdering pedophile imperialist political cult.
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