I find Jewish culture to be very liberal. I live in Miami, where we have a large Jewish community. They are also very diverse.
Israeli’s are VERY cool people. Most have lived in numerous nations/cities and speak several languages. The ones I knew had a lot of admirable qualities. They were also very liberal for my standards.
I had an Israeli boyfriend. He told me Israeli’s think American Jews are whimpy, whiney, and spoiled. Israeli’s are tough. A lot seemed to be involved in borderline crooked businesses. Imagine 20 something year old kids with the original 900# phone sex call centers? Eeew. The people on phones pretending to be beautiful, were disgusting. Maybe it was just that one group of Israeli’s. Bad apples in every group.
They were also very traditional. Friday night amazing dinners, started with reading in the Torah in hebrew, with the entire family is beautiful. I’m Catholic, so I love the traditions expressing a respect to God. That is where it seemed to end.
I was taught boundaries, right and wrong, don’t do unto others...., The ONLY problem they seemed to find offensive to God was when I cut the Salami with the same knife as the cheese.
That freaked him out. Call me crazy, but I just don’t get that. I liked my boundaries even then, and even if I broke them, I liked that they were there, it made me feel safe.
I think many Jews have gone the way of many “christians” whoare very worldly and perhaps more culturally Jewish, than spiritually.