Posted on 02/05/2020 4:06:39 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Like most of his Orthodox friends, Richard Goldberg was raised a Democrat.
But by 2000, Goldberg had affixed a Republican congressional campaign bumper sticker to the maroon Lincoln Town Car he drove to his Orthodox Jewish high school in Chicago. Spurred by concerns about President Bill Clinton’s Israeli-Arab peace process, disgust with the Monica Lewinsky scandal and a desire to emulate his older brother, Goldberg had decided to become a Republican.
Though he was not yet old enough to vote, Goldberg knew he was unusual. He remembers walking into Chicago’s largest Judaica store, Rosenblum’s, to see stacks of yarmulkes adorned with the Democratic presidential campaign logo — including the name of Joe Lieberman, the Orthodox Jewish senator who had been selected as Al Gore’s running mate.
“The owner of the bookstore was pushing me to get a Gore-Lieberman yarmulke,” Goldberg told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I said, ‘These are very nice. Do you have them in Bush-Cheney?’ He didn’t even know how to respond.”
Twenty years later, Rosenblum’s says it isn’t selling any campaign yarmulkes due to a policy of not offering political merchandise of any kind. But elsewhere, kippahs emblazoned with logos supporting President Donald Trump, a Republican, are readily available. The Orthodox world has caught up with Goldberg, who worked for years as a GOP political operative.
“I’ve never seen anything like it as far as support in the Orthodox community,” Goldberg said about Trump. Regarding the president’s policies toward Israel, Goldberg said, “If your worldview is such that these things are unbelievable accomplishments and things that you’ve waited your whole life to see happen, this president is a dream come true.”
Multiple surveys reflect Goldberg’s experience. The vast majority of American Jews vote for Democrats, but a slim majority of Orthodox Jews voted for Trump...
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Thank you for teaching us on FR.
My Jewish friends have taught me a few things about centuries of mistrust but it is always best if you hear it first hand.
I am still learning.
It is from the Bible. God chose to reveal Himself to the Jews and chose them as "His people".
They don't like NATIONALISTS.
They feel threatened by them. -Tom
Non-orthodox love socialism more than they love Israel.
And they will not vote for someone who is supported by Christians.
All I'm saying is that you have no credibility with me if you think GWB was a great president. He was an awful president -- which is why he was less popular than a child molester among American voters by the time he left office.
And if you got on the Giuliani bandwagon after GWB, then I suspect you live in a major urban center (probably NYC) and think a big, nanny-state, globalist government that orders people around like a herd of sheep is just fine. That's your business, but that ain't America.
By the time 2008 rolled around, GWB probably would have lost a presidential election to Arafat right here in the U.S.
I’ve ask Jew friends that very question. I know two that voted Trump but refuse to vote for him again. Go figure.
The article is about Jewish Americans becoming Republicans. GWB is a Republican who on the whole acted favorably towards Israel, including shunning Arafat. Things like that mattered to those Jewish Americans who grew up in Democrat families, who care about Israel, and who became more open to voting Republican.
Deut 14:2
“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.”
It is called the Bible.
Or to quote FOTR “if this is what it means to be Chosen, maybe you can chose somebody else for a while!”
Or to quote FOTR “if this is what it means to be Chosen, maybe you can chose somebody else for a while!”
Focus. We are discussing how and why people, especially Orthodox Jewish people such as myself, switch. First, get your chronology straight. Giuliani was elected while Clinton was President, not GWB. Second, we are not talking about the present perception of GWB, but at how he impressed people in 2000 and again in 2004, when he won a second term. Furthermore, at the time that I voted for Giuliani, I was a resident of NYC, not a passive observer of him from afar.
How GWB looked when he left office, or how people viewed Giuliani outside of NYC is irrelevant. He was a great mayor of NYC, because he lowered the annual body count from 2000 plus murdered in NYC to to 350 or so, balanced the budget, made the streets safe again. Nanny state shmanny state. He was the right man for NYC, long before 9/11/01, just as GWB was the right man for the country in 2001.
I’m sure in Alberta they have competent history teachers, who admonish their students about viewing historical characters in hindsight. For example, Churchill was a great wartime PM, but he was put out to pasture until 1940, and deservedly so, and was voted out of office in 1945, then voted back in a few years later, and kept on long after he was physically unable to function. If all you know of Churchill was how bravely he defied the German war machine in 1939 et seq., those facts are incomprehensible. But he was exactly the right man for 1940, and exactly the wrong man for 1945, as far as the voters were concerned.
So, too, GWB was exactly right for his time, then fell out of favor. Rudy Giuliani was exactly right for his time and place, but would have been an awful governor of Alberta in 1920.
“A few fishermen?”
“You haven’t looked very deeply into Christianity if that’s your attitude.”
Those are the facts of the incident, as recorded. They went fishing to avoid Jesus, who walked across the water to confront his disciples, or so it’s claimed, and tell one of them to become a fisher of men. No revelation before an entire nation. Just a privately recorded incident.
Nicodemus and Paul are not noted for any scholarly brilliance in the Talmud. Where are their opinions, their debates with fellow scholars? Elisha Ben Avuya was an outright heretic and informer to the Romans, but his opinions are recorded, albeit so are his wicked escapades. Paul and Nicodemus? Fake news. No mention.
There is much to learn about Hinduism and Buddhism if one has an open mind. But my mind is occupied with learning about Judaism, not studying other religions. And also reading Solzhenitsyn in English, Aristophanes in Greek, trying to learn Arabic for the umpteenth time, and making a stab at Russian, and writing an article on the Ahwazi that requires interminable research. I’m also hand transcribing a Torah scroll on parchment, the Book of Esther likewise on parchment on time for Purim, and a Mezuza. So I’m a bit busy.
It’s little known that Donald Trump donated considerable money to help the Jews expelled from Yesha years ago. believe there is a plaque on the location of greenhouses that Trump helped build.
Probably because of DJT’s connection to Rabbi Shmuel Wagner from Yeshivas Ohr Yerushalayim.
God I hope so. Some of my friends are definitely in our camp but then again, they proudly proclaim themselves to be “North Florida Jewish Rednecks”. The KKK are a teeny tiny fringe element and are a joke. They enjoy no real popular support in South Carolina or anywhere else. The level of support they had was always WAY overstated. The real hate for Jews today comes from the hard Left.
The ironic thing is in their values and in the way they actually live their lives, Jews are natural Republicans even if many of them don’t seem to want to recognize it. Strong family values, a great deal of respect for education, a work ethic, low out of wedlock birth rates, etc. Getting more Jews to appreciate the value of the 2nd amendment would be a huge positive step. I do not understand why so many American Jews are hostile to it. Israelis certainly understand and appreciate the need for firearms for self defense.
I sure do......
Maybe there’s a ‘Hawaii factor’ involved.
I have no idea what it’s like on the mainland. I can only report my direct experience and personal observations. 90%+ seem to hate on Trump (here)
I sure do......
Maybe there’s a ‘Hawaii factor’ involved.
I have no idea what it’s like on the mainland. I can only report my direct experience and personal observations. 90%+ seem to hate on Trump (here)
I sure do......
Maybe there’s a ‘Hawaii factor’ involved.
I have no idea what it’s like on the mainland. I can only report my direct experience and personal observations. 90%+ seem to hate on Trump (here)
I sure do......
Maybe there’s a ‘Hawaii factor’ involved.
I have no idea what it’s like on the mainland. I can only report my direct experience and personal observations. 90%+ seem to hate on Trump (here)
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