Flashback: All the Jews Biden has tapped for top roles in his new administration

US President Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisers, many of them Jewish.

Biden’s choices reflect a diverse cross-section of American Jewry and possess expertise gleaned from decades of experience in government, science and medicine and law.

Here’s a rundown of the Jewish names you should know as the Biden administration begins. Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State

Blinken, a longtime Biden adviser with an extensive diplomacy resume, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions, including in the Middle East. He holds mainstream Democratic views about Israel and said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he wants the US to reenter the Iran nuclear deal — and that he would consult with Israel on Iran policy.

Cohen, who has long been involved in Jewish causes and issues, will occupy the job he held under President Barack Obama. He does not require confirmation, meaning that Biden’s CIA has a top expert in Iran issues from Day One.

Garland was blocked from joining the Supreme Court in the last year of the Obama administration. Now, he’ll require Senate confirmation to become the country’s top lawyer. In his speech after being nominated, he credited his grandparents, who fled anti-Semitism in Europe before coming to the US.

Haines was deputy director of the CIA under Obama and Biden reportedly considered her to run that agency. Her mother was the Jewish painter Adrian Rappin (originally Rappaport), and her non-Jewish father once wrote in an account about a trip with Haines to Israel that the nominee identifies as Jewish.

Klain, a longtime Biden aide who was the president-elect’s first major appointment in November, was previously chief of staff to Biden in his vice president days and to Vice President Al Gore. He has maintained ties with his childhood synagogue in Indianapolis, where he famously learned multiple Torah portions for his bar mitzvah, and has spoken about his commitment to raising Jewish children.

Lander, a leading geneticist, will require Senate confirmation after Biden elevated his position to the Cabinet level. After he was criticized for toasting James Watson, the scientist who is credited with discovering the shape of DNA and who also expressed racist and sexist views, Lander said he, too, had been the subject of anti-Semitic comments by Watson.

Levine, raised in a Conservative Jewish home in Massachusetts, is Pennsylvania’s health secretary. She is the first known transgender person to be nominated for a position that requires Senate confirmation.

Mayorkas, 60, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama, was born in Cuba to a Cuban Jewish father and Romanian Jewish mother who survived the Holocaust. He has worked closely with Jewish groups and spoken often about the specific threats facing American Jews. An array of Jewish groups sought a swift confirmation given the threat of extremist violence surrounding the presidential transition, but a Republican senator who supported overturning the election results blocked that possibility on Tuesday.

An Orthodox Jew originally from Brooklyn and educated through college in Orthodox schools, Neuberger has worked at the NSA for more than a decade. She helped establish the US Cyber Command and worked as chief risk officer, where she led the agency’s election security efforts for the 2018 midterms.

Sherman was the lead negotiator for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and took the lead in advocating for the agreement with the Jewish and pro-Israel communities, later describing tensions with Israel and some American Jewish groups over the deal as “very, very painful.” She has also played a role in hewing the Democratic Party platform to traditional pro-Israel lines.

Yellen already made history as the first woman chair of the Federal Reserve, but now she has been appointed to be the first female Treasury secretary. The respected centrist was one of three Jews featured in a 2016 Trump attack ad that reflected longstanding anti-Semitic tropes.

Today’s Obama-Biden administration’s foreign policy may include this long list of “people with Jewish ancestry “ and “coming catholics c (including also dozens of elected notables such as Chuck Schumer, Biden himself and Nancy Pelosi). But.

But the the policies can best be summarized by Obama’s “Heirarchy of Hatred” with Israel, the UK (in its classic Western government form), the United States, and Western Judeo-Christian capitalism as its foremost enemies. In that order.

Today, the UK has been destroyed (is being destroyed) from within by the immigrants and asylum-welfare seekers. The US is rapidly following, led by the social-communists inside the government, the universities, and their massed media.

Israel remains.

Awakened now by the 7 October brutality.

Obama-Biden - and to only a lesser degree, Clinton before him - will support China’s long term interests over everything else.

Short term, Obama-Biden will choose the radical Muslim extremist government or interest over the Muslim dictator. The dictorial Muslim state over the secular stable Muslim state. The secular Muslim state position over the secular socialist state. The socialist dictatorship over the democrat socialist state’s interests. The socialist union coalition over capitalist interests.

A Jew is someone who lives according to the tenants of YWHW, and the majority of practicing Jews are Zionists

Whoa now…

At least 15,000 rabbis would disagree with that statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5T_Qu12ACs

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, an outspoken critic of Zionism, discusses the June 3, 2018 convention attended by 15,000 rabbis: Torah Jewry against Zionism / The Incompatibility of Judaism and Zionism.

“Many Jews believe, wrongly, that Zionism is either part of Judaism or is compatible with Judaism, or is even the main part of Judaism. All of those are actually false. Zionism was created to negate Judaism; Zionism was created to replace Judaism. The differences between Zionism and Judaism are vast, they’re vast and profound. The propaganda that the Zionists have churned out for the past hundred years have confused and conflated Zionism and Judaism - such that when the average person walks down the street he thinks that the state of Israel is the Jewish state, he thinks that Zionism is Judaism, and he doesn’t know the difference.”

Most people, especially those who identify as Christian Zionists, would be surprised to learn of the substantial and growing population of secular Israeli Jews who don’t acknowledge “faith in a god.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/religion-has-outsized-role-in-israel-yet-most-of-its-jews-arent-really-observant/

Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet, strikingly, a large portion of its population is secular, and even its insular ultra-Orthodox community loses a steady stream of members who tire of its strict religious rules.

The country is home to about 7 million Jews, almost half of the global Jewish population. But Jewish identity is a complex blend of religious and ethnonational identity; most Israeli Jews are not diligent observers of Judaism.

An Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics survey published in 2021 found that among Israeli Jews over the age of 20, about 45 percent identified as secular or not religious, while 33% said they practiced “traditional” religious worship. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, known as Haredim in Hebrew, made up 10%.

For Naor Narkis and many other secular Israelis, their Jewish identity is cultural — defined by the Hebrew tongue and historical experience — rather than governed by traditional religious worship.

Narkis, a Tel Aviv native, founded Enlightened Israel after last year’s parliamentary elections when ultra-Orthodox and religious ultranationalists helped bring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back into office. Narkis says the organization aims to champion liberal values and educate ultra-Orthodox Israelis about them, and advocates for a clear separation of religion and state, including allowing public transit on the Sabbath.

“I don’t think there’s a big difference between a secular Jew living in Tel Aviv and a person living in New York whose parents are Christian but isn’t religious,” Narkis said. “What defines us is our language, and our heritage, but doesn’t involve faith in a god.”

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Rabbi Shapiro has a substantial youtube presence - discussing Zionism vs. Judaism.

Yaakov Shapiro is an international speaker, author, and pulpit rabbi for over 30 years, now emeritus. He has attained an enviable place in the arena of anti-Zionist public intellectuals, having constructed a unique oeuvre on the ideology of Zionism and its relationship to Judaism. After graduating high school at age 16, Rabbi Shapiro dedicated himself to full-time study of religion, becoming the protégé of some of the most well-regarded rabbinic scholars in Orthodoxy. Among his areas of research are religious philosophy, analytic theology, Talmud, Halachah, and Biblical exegesis.

His most recent work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), a 1381-page treatise on the differences between Judaism and Zionism, is the most comprehensive work written on the subject and considered by many to be definitive.

With defference to the good Rabbi, I respectfully disagree. YOu have Jews who are practicing Jews and then Vichy Jews who would turn on their genuine Jewish "friends" and betray them in a heartbeat, like they did in Vichy France , saving themselves to betray their neighbors and send millions of Jews to the gas ovens of Dachau, Belsin, and Aushwitz. George SOROS is to counted among these and his son Alex is much worse.

The Rabbi speaks from the point of view of the blood connection potential, forgiveness and redemption, which I do not disagree with at all. BUt theology and politics necessarily diverge.Men are judged by their actions and betrayals.

I speak from the point if view of Real Politik, which is the view used by Vichy Jews like Shumer, Schiff and Nadler. They are Jews when it suits them politically, and are non Jews when it suits them, depending on the situation, a cultural heritage of their Revolutionary Bolshevik Ancestry.They are Marxists who have no good intentions about America.

Vichy Jews are the stark, unforgiving enemy of the Jews, and now they work their horrid opposition to those who want to preserve Israel for YHWH's chosen people. Biden, Schumer, Nardler, Schiff, Obama and the whole lot of these sodomites are about to receive a huge punishent.

I estimate they have until passover to repent, which is only a few days away now, 23/24 April.After that the whole lot will walk the avenue of the damned.Whats more , all of them have been warned.

Unfortunately nothing else can be done, all we can do is pray that these sodomites do not drag the rest of our country, the population is mostly under G_d,down along with them, a clear and present danger as they wax into fascism, damning themselves into perdition while the free are made to suffer their machinations, including President Trump, a supporter if Bibi and a servant of G_d?

One thing that the attack on Israel proved, is that YWHW is very active, a miracle that all of the missiles were stopped under the cooperation of disparate allies, who were unprepared, Jordan, Saudi Arabia , UK, And the USA.We see the hand of G_d at work, and these singular idiots like Biden,Obama,Schiff, Nadler, and Schumer are about to discover that.I look forward to watching them fail.

YHWH as of old, now walks Judea:

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