“ Begs the question: why are practicing Jews in the United States Democrats. The age old question.”
It’s because, traditionally, the Republicans were country club Christian Conservatives. Guess who doesn’t belong to the Christian Conservative Country Clubs.
In my upper class community there is the WASP country club and the Jewish one. They have been here for more than 100 years. There is almost no “mixing.”
Old stereotypes die hard.
And Jews do not like Catholics. There is huge animosity towards Catholics and probably justified, IMO. Catholics have not treated Jews very well historically and it gives the Jewish orthodoxy justification to continue not trusting Christians in general. Evangelicals believe differently.
The Jews lump all Christians into “Catholics.” And many Jews don’t realize that Christ and the apostles were Jews. Jews refer to Jesus as Catholic.