Your Rabbi, Daniel Lapin
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Come on, real Jews...!
Personal observations: both conservative Christians and conservative Jews are pretty conservative and tend Republican.
Conservative and orthodox Jews typically cannot stand the anti-Semitism and pro-LGBT crap the far left mandates for membership.
I don’t see many in the Orthodox Jewish community supporting the libtard views. They are overwhelmingly conservative.
Your Rabbi, Daniel Lapin
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Great article I am a non-orthodox Jewish man, a conservative, and I could not have said it as well, let alone better.
I tried twice to post this article on facebook. I think it was blocked.
Reformed Judaism was created in Germany in the 18th century. It’s goal was to allow Jews to apply Jewish beliefs to a modern Western lifestyle.
What’s lost on many of today’s Reformed Jews is that throughout the 18th, 19th, and even the bulk of the 20th century, Judeo-Christian values were respected throughout the West. So there was some inherent common ground between Judaism and Western secular life.
But over the past 40 years, the West has become more and more hostile to Judeo Christian values. And the hostility is most strong among intellectuals, academics, and artists. Jews have always taken pride in being accepted by urban intellectuals.
So as these intellectuals and artists become more and more hostile to religion and Israel, Reformed Jews have to twist themselves into pretzels to convince themselves that there’s some common ground between Judaism and all this anti Judeo Christian sentiment.
We are now at a tipping point....Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capitol is a good example of this. Lots of Jews who would have praised Trump 20 years ago over this don’t even want to talk or think about it, because all their Liberal friends hate Trump. So they mumble to themselves “maybe this isn’t good for making peace with the Palestinians”, when they know damn well that the Palestinians don’t want peace with Israel under any circumstance.
As the Democrat party becomes home to more and more overtly antisemitic Leftist radicals, these Reformed Jews are going to have to choose between completely abandoning any allegiance to Judaism and Israel or rethinking their loyalty to the Democrats.
The 2020 Democrat primary should be very interesting and eye opening in this regard.
Deplorable Jews are AWESOME... I know several, including my best friend and his dad.
Nice article...
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Bkmrk.
My confusion lies in the multiple ambiguities on what defines a person as a Jew.
How is it that persons who are atheist and communist, and are not necessarily or obviously Semitic ancestrally, are nevertheless deemed Jewish?
I was the only Gentile in my Hebrew class. All of the Jews were basically secular and hedonistic, though they went through the motions of Bar Mitzvah or Bas Mitzvah, and some had lived in Kibbutzim in Israel. Only the teacher was a practicing Jew. She was polite to me; the rest merely tolerated me.
They did not know the Law and the Prophets, as I did, and they lived lives that violated the Ten Commandments on a routine basis.
My mother is actually part Semite (and looks it), but we have never ever claimed to be Jewish, because we are Christians. (I was sometimes maligned in high school for being part Semite, and total strangers have bluntly asked me if I am Jewish. No, neither one especially bothered me; my point is that we look more Semitic than many ostensible Semites.)
The term seems mostly to be a political or cultural device or weapon now.
It should be obvious that my mother, my siblings, and I would likely have been slave labor under the Third Reich. I am not anti-Jewish. I simply do not know what the term means anymore.
It seems to morph on demand depending upon the moment and the purpose. I distrust that.
Jewish and to the right of....... Somewhere in between Pat Buchanan and Attila the Hun.