I read that 80% of America’s Jews voted for Kamala, which I find curious, since Judaism is not a left-wing religion.
I don't think their political choices are more sophisticated than that. Too bad!
“I read...”
That automatically puts the possibility into a question mark. The media lies all the time and this is just like their support for Hilly in 2016 and Kamala in 2024. Don’t believe what you read all the time from sources that need you like next year.
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Harris 65% vs. Trump 34% among self-identified Jews, per this Pew Research poll...
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/09/white-protestants-and-catholics-support-trump-but-voters-in-other-us-religious-groups-prefer-harris/
But your point stands... Jews do swing left politically, but I don’t think it has much to do with the Jewish religion per se. It’s a cultural thing of generations of identifying with secular leftism along with a certain phobia of the “Christian right” trying to convert and/or force Christianity upon them.
I knew a Jewish woman who was atheist but lit the candles every Friday night.
What she worshipped - devoutly -was being Jewish - being smart and liberal.
The child she hardly mentioned was the one who didn’t marry a Jew and didn’t have an advanced degree. The only oppressed people she didn’t champion were the Palestinians.
Devoutly, proudly Jewish. Religion had nothing to do with it.
Those 80% (assuming that the figure is correct, and I think that it’s a bit high) are generally not religiously observant, and generally don’t give a damn about the faith of their fathers. Leftism is their religion - Judaism has nothing to do with their politics.
But they are having less kids and intermarrying, whereas the more politically conservative Orthodox are not intermarrying and are having more kids. The politics of today won’t be the same for long.
>> since Judaism is not a left-wing religion [Jews vote 80% Rat]
because it knows that it will never have any practical influence over Christ
“I read that 80% of America’s Jews voted for Kamala, which I find curious, since Judaism is not a left-wing religion.”
You mean 80% of Jewish liberals voted for Kamala. All Jews are Jewish but not all Jewish people are Jews. Being a Jew, I know this from all my Jewish friends who are liberals. They would vote for Hitler if he had a “D” next to his name.
Orthodox Jews vote Republican they always have, its the rest of them that vote Democrat, because of their love of abortion
“I read that 80% of America’s Jews voted for Kamala, which I find curious, since Judaism is not a left-wing religion.”
You’re right. Judaism is not a left-wind religion. Not at all.
I think your perception is caused by the fake polls advanced by Democrat front groups that generate the 70% plus numbers often quoted by the media to falsely claim nearly universal Jewish support for Obama, Biden and Kamala.
This creates a false idea of the average Jewish voter in most people.
A deeper look into the leftwing polls shows them to be nonsense and statistically flawed.