It's about time.
Can I order some earrings and a broach?
Oh, never mind. I thought it was jewelry!
Dan Greenfield has been writing about this for years.
Unlike reform Jews, most of which are liberals and are pro-abortion, rarely having more than a couple of kids, Orthodox Jews have very large families.
IF a majority of Jews were more than ethnically identified as Jews, as in faithful to God, and IF a majority of Christians were more than casually identified as Christians, as in faithful to God, the Democrat Party would not exist.
““We have a community that is large, that is growing, that is diverse and that is challenged by poverty, by elements of disengagement, and also strengthened by diversity, by growing areas of Jewish involvement,” said Steven M. Cohen, a leading sociologist of the Jewish community and one of the report’s three authors.”
I read that twice trying to figure out what it says. Classic sociologists drivel.
Even if true, it’s not a large enough group to make much difference against United Socialism.
” Consider this, in another generation current trends could mean that NYC Jews become a GOP voting block. “
But a drop in the bucket compared to the increases in the Asian and Hispanic populations.
That dude has a SERIOUS hat on.
“Eleven percent of Jewish households in the area are on food stamps.”
This is actually a LOWER percentage than the country as a whole now - which is 14%.
“New York’s Jews are poorer, less educated and more religious than they were 10 years ago, according to a landmark new study of the city’s Jewish population.
They’re also less liberal: More than half of the Jews in New York City live in Orthodox or Russian-speaking homes, both of which lean heavily conservative.”
I take that as a lefthanded/underhanded/backhanded swipe meaning conservatives are uneducated................or am I paranoid?
‘The Era of the So-Called Jewish Vote Is Over’
BS, wishful thinking!
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i live in liberalpukeville, NY; 2 miles from the clintons and 1 mile from cuomo and i can tell you there is outrage from the majority of Jewish people i know against obama/cuomo/demoKrats....sheer outrage...
many of them whisper it while some are very outspoken on how they despise liberal politics...
So don't count them as a conservative voting bloc just yet.
That's pretty much a national trend.
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Unfortunately, even Charedi Orthodoxy isn't always a sign of Republican or conservative affiliation. Historically, the traditional leaders of Jewish communities have had to be on good terms with whomever is in power (and in urban America, that means liberals). Furthermore, they have looked to whomever is in power to protect them from the mob (which in Europe was rural chrstian "bumpkins"). Those same rulers often used the Jews to do their dirty work (such as collecting taxes), which took the wrath of the masses off themselves and put it squarely on the Jews.
There are other issues at work as well. As a largely parochial, inward-focused community (and one for which the society gets "multiculturalism" points), Charedi Jews simply have not had to deal with the sewer directly. They have had the luxury of living in islands of Theocracy championed by liberals who regard their religion merely as a de-criminalized deviancy in need of protection from "decent people" (much like "gays"). But Jews are far from the only population group to benefit from this. The ancient oriental chrstian communities (Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Armenian, Indian, Assyrian) and even Eastern Orthodoxy are extremely quietistic and extremely ethnic, living in worlds of their own where confrontation with secular political authority simply does not exist.
And yes, these groups still see the majority population as a danger as great as or even greater than the State itself. And American-style Fundamentalist Protestants living in other cultures have the exact same attitude.
Hillary bought these "Conservative" Jewish votes quite easily by making deals with their head rabbis. Does anyone really expect a majority Republican vote from the very same people who practically invented European Socialism?