They get these stats from the donation rolls of the DNC.
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My Jewish b-i-l describes Reform Jews as "athiests who haven't kicked the temple habit".
Not only did he believe in the pagan Od rays drawing men to men but men to boys, and found nothing wrong with it. He only gave lip service to his "dislike of homosexuals to keep the Catholicc Church quiet.
This Rabbi better do his homework.
"The appeaser feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last" - Winston Churchill
Just what is it Yoffie is trying to appease? Who is the crocodile?
I submit that it is the growing alliance of leftists and antisemites, the latter including the whole range of rabid Jew-hate from Cynthia McKinny to David Duke.
The institutional media ("MSM") are complicit in this for systematically ignoring the growth in openly antisemitic declarations from the left, as during Cyndi Sheehan's rants and various media-driven campus demonstrations.
The MSM have completely ignored the anti-War and pro-Islamic positions of KKK and neo-Nazi leaders and the increasing involvement of this scum in the lefty-instigated anti-war movement.
I could post a list of typical anti-Jewish statements and readers would be hard-pressed to guess whether they came from the left (including many JINOs), the "right" (Duke, etc.), or dead Nazis like Streicher and Goebbels.
Somewhere you can hear James Baker saying I told you so.
He's talking about Moose Limbs, right?
Perhaps he goes to the same Kabalah class as Madonna.
#2. At least half those who belong to Reform congregations are not actually Jewish.
This man is a liar. I don't know of any religous leader who has claimed to have a monopoly on God. He needs to be challenged and made to name names. Then, the fireworks would get interesting.
The audience of 5,000 responded to the speech with enthusiastic applause.
Numbskulls who have to be told what to think are always enthusiastic about being told what to think.
Most of the "hateful rhetoric" I've heard the last few years has been from the leftwing thugs and footsoldiers, including "liberal theologians."
And Orthodox Jews have some of the highest retention rates, and the congregations are actually growing. There's a simple reason for this... In my experience, nearly every reform Jew I know only participates because it's what their family's always done. I once asked my late uncle why he bothers to go to synagogue at all, since in his words, "religion is nothing but bulls**t!" He said that he went in honor of his mother and father, who were religious. My Aunt continues to go, but she seems to treat services as a social event, chatting with everyone around her. From some younger families, I would get an answer of "we go for our children, so they get a religious education." And once the children are grown, they often stop going (as mentioned in the article). Quite often, those children really aren't observant at all.
I guess my observations have shown me that in many cases, Reform Jews do not observe their religion for G-d, or for themselves, but for other people. I realize that this sweeping statement is NOT the case for all Reform Jews, but for many that I've known over the years. And they're the one's that this article seems to be mentioning in regards to losing interest in Judaism.
It's no wonder, since from this perspective that Judaism holds no interest for themselves, only for others.
Mark
I do not understand the Reform Jews membership numbers:
They say they have 1.5 million members in 900 synagogues. That is an average of 1,700 members per synagogue.
Meanwhile, the Southern Baptists as an example have 17 million members in 41,000 churches or an average of 400 members per church.
The Presbyterian Church USA has an average membership of just over 200 members per church.
It certainly appears the Reformed Jews are grossly exaggerating their importance. Perhaps they only have about 250,000 members.
So this is the leftist mouthpiece of the liberal Jews that have undermined the Jewish cause since the 60s.
Presently this leftist group is promoting ARZA (Association for Reform Zionist of America) in the upcoming national elections in Israel. The Union for Reform Judaism calls ARZA "a vote for the values which unite Reform/Progressive Jews and help to empower the growth of the Progressive Jewish Movement in Israel."
However, there are voices opposing the Israeli Reform movement. A click of my mouse found this one at the following site:
http://www.crisisisrael.com/display_commentary.php?cid=147
"The Reform movement has adopted the entire agenda of the American Left, down to and including bashing Israel for daring to defend itself. The Reform establishment is today barely distinct from the buffoons in the Tikkun-Aleph-Renewal cult of Michael Lerner and Arthur Waskow, other than the fact that they have not - yet - endorsed LSD use by Jews."
and,
"The Reform establishment opposes school choice for Jews and wants Jewish children confined to public schools; it supports every wacky idea to emerge from the most extremist environmentalist movements; it supports affirmative action quotas that discriminate against Jews; the number one item on its agenda these days is gay "marriage"; David Saperstein's comments opposing welfare reform were so outrageous that a few years back they were cited with approval by the American Communist Party newspaper. . . The Reform Establishment supports partial-birth abortion but vehemently opposes execution of convicted murderers and terrorists. It wants Israel to return to its 1949 borders with all "settlers" expelled. Reformies in Israel have led the anti-globalization hoodlums seeking to make the world safe for Marxism. . . It is not the religious parties who are responsible for the nation's self-destruction in Israel but the secularist ones, although the religious parties display cowardice in not stopping it. . .In an era when true believers in liberalism are an endangered species outside the Bay Area and Hollywood, the Reform establishment lobbies in the name of "Judaism" and "Biblical ethics" to impose its leftist political biases and lifestyle on all Jews and on the entire United States. It seeks to hijack Judaism, Jewish holidays and Jewish ethical authority on behalf of the PC fads of the liberal-Left."
This "rabbi" (and the term is used loosely) Yoffie character is just another stale, outdated, 1960s hippie leftover that just cannot seem to get his sorry-tired needle unstuck. Yada, yada, yada, same ole, same ole. Make him a gentile and he'd fit right in with any liberal Protestant or liberal Catholic group; they all say the same things. Religious Jews and Christian are all "awful people out to destroy people's rights, take over, the sky is falling, the sky is falling....." B-O-R-I-N-G!
This JINO carpetbagger needs to be seriously smacked upside his fool head with a very large, very wet fish (say a yellow-fin tuna).
This yahoo is about as representative of real Judaism as John Shelby Spong is representative of real Christianity.
Someone needs to tell this joker to go kiss their Dixie tailpipes in Hebrew or Yiddish (that is, if the idjit even knows either language).
"Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism.."
Nuff said.
The liberal Jewish establishment is to Judaism as the Methodist, Episcopalian and Presbyterian establishments are to Christianity - hogwash.