I've mentioned this before, but the Reform synagogue I attend had as many Bush bumper stickers as Kerry stickers in the parking lot, during the '04 election. The present Rabbi is a centrist, as far as I can tell. The previous Rabbi, I'm told, was a NRA member.
The president of the NRA is a Jewish woman. There was a thread about it last night.
****I've mentioned this before, but the Reform synagogue I attend had as many Bush bumper stickers as Kerry stickers in the parking lot, during the '04 election. The present Rabbi is a centrist, as far as I can tell. The previous Rabbi, I'm told, was a NRA member.****
The Rabbi at my Reform syagogue is a liberal - but he is changing before our eyes. His foreign policy views are trending conservative.
He was shocked at Carter's book - all the Reformed Rabbis were - they cancelled a trip to Carter's Center which was to take place early in March during a convention of Reformed Rabbis.
As the Roosevelt generation dies off, and the younger people are coming of age, there is less and less of a tendency to vote automatically in any direction.
And how do we know with true accuracy how the Jewish community votes as a whole? Exit polls are unreliable - this we all know for a fact.
Telephone polling is also unreliable - people often say what they think others want them to say.
Jews in New York City voted for Bloomberg - now before you fall off your chair and tell me how liberal Republican Bloomberg is - we also have to remember those same Jews voted for Guiliani.
Yes, Jews must have voted for Guiliani.
Most have voted for Pataki too.
And Jews must have voted for Mitt Romney in Massachusetts as quite a number of them live in that state.
I really do resent this tarring an entire group of people with a very broad brush.
So let's repeat it....
Since so many Jews live in New York City...
and Guiliani was mayor of New York City....
therefore must have been a substantial number of Jews who voted for the Republican Guiliani over whoever the democrat was.