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To: a real Sheila

Some, but not all are. Many have chosen to practice “Reformed” Judaism which is not very Torah observant. But interestingly, that movement is dying and recently, more and more are returning to Conservative and Orthodox Judaism.

The problem started with adapting to an American life. It can be done, but it really is very difficult to do. As wonderful as the USA is, the way things work here can make it very difficult to be Torah Observant. It requires a lot more than non-Jews realize.

When many of the Jews came here, many found it very hard to adapt. Things like Bosses would not tolerate an employee taking a breaks to do morning and afternoon prayers, or to leave earlier on a Friday, and not work on Saturdays because of Shabbos. They were fired if they did not shave off their long beards or cut off their peyot (earlocks) and they were fired for wearing a Kippah on their heads.

Unless you had a profession or trade and could be self employed, you had a hard time feeding your family. There was a time in the US when people would not hire Jews. I remember my mother telling me she went for a job and was told, flat out, by many places that they do not hire Jews. So, when the Reformed movement in Judaism came about, many went for it- it meant that they “could fit in”. Unfortunately, many of them were leftists, and that tradition remains in that sect today. However, things are changing, that sect is beginning to die.

There will always be hard-core leftists among them- as there are in any group, but more and more are beginning to see that this “president” is an anti-semite. The word is getting out to them. The problem is most only watch or read the MSM, and the MSM skews and censors news. They get the impression from the media that Israel is a horrible country and that they are persecuting the arabs. So, they feel guilt.


35 posted on 05/20/2011 6:50:06 AM PDT by Never A Dull Moment
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You wrote eloquently on reform Judaism. I've been in all three but reform has by all means the most leftist of all and yet there's a small group maybe draffed by their wives or seared by LSD from the 60's, even Messianic Jews( very frowned on as mentally ill lol)

I wrote this before but I found more Jews into Judaism because they could read the words but didn't have a clue what they were reading. There were Jews that dealt with"tradition" more than the shikihah glory of G!D, the love and mercy and the words right there in the Tanakh they swiftly ignore and or shun, and I wonder if any listen to the hymns, so beautiful the cantor of such an ancient love of God speaking in an ancient tongue some say was given to Moses during his meeting with G!D at Mt Sinai( to me if I closed my eyes and just listened, it WAS beautiful but alas I fear I never felt G!D in that place, just tangents of evil and deviations from their GOD!)

Yes we had/ (I left so it's probably now even better!) a great Torah study that was mainly conservative in nature and an off campus/shul Talmidic studies with varied people involved and lecturing in Gramatica, Numerology, Kabbalism, but each with a twist, one might adhere to Hinduism, many didn't believe in any god at all, some actually FOUND the mad Imam and used to sup with them and argue points. I was on the security team but the fools would not listen to me when I asked them, begged them to have cameras watching camera( waay outside the perimeter)an always armed secuity man on the roof and two or three "false bottoms " in the shul" just in case."

The word was I was nuts, crazy and no, no, no, noone will come for them because everyone loves us. I retorted with no you are living in a bubble of some sixties hippie love-peace and it's all false. I finally quit when they started in on transgender groups and "Understanding the Quran" and I left and said, screw this, they do not want security, they have some bubble headed dreams they will never be attacked( though vandalism happened on Wiccan holy days, on or around Hitlers B-Day, Yom Kippur and ,dates, dates, and more dates and open doors) but alas, there is a remnant of reformists that are really trying to carry on the Word handed through ages and try to abide by the laws and such withing it but you hit the nail on the head, many don't practice.

Many, no a few do not really like the "J Street' Code Pink/ Obama is a god BS and they have more converted Gentiles( bless them) than Jews, and oh yeah it's Sephardic and one last day I tried I got a Helen Thomas like Lesbian B**** telling me I was Ashkanaze, not a real Jew, go back to the Ukraine or where ever your family ran from; you're not wanted her. It's then I bought a book from a good man who wrote it"The Jews of Khazaria," even tried loaning her a copy but I wore out my welcome with my "war mongering( I would always carry throwing knives, a small 25 cal a 22, and a 40 cal or my grams old WWII Colt 45 ) and walked the perimeters most services.

Maybe I'm nuts but that shul is a death trap in sketchy knowledge, weird in their security( some MIGHT be waking up) weird in their need for tradition but have never shunned this idol worshiping they picked up from Code Pink, Wiccans, Hindus, name it, and I just got tired of angry gays and Lesbos calling me names. I sort of hope reform Judaism or at least that shul gets a wake up call but I wonder what good it'll do; Obama is not the messiah and MSM is not gospel truth and whether the gods of the Hindi, the evil of black magic, or the wiles of cultural relativism is their god, I see lip service besides a remnant, and it's sad the way they twist the Torah or say," it was only for back then,' Well if it was" for back then" then they better start reading the New testament and quickly because they've already pulled a Hezekiah and showed the Babylonian Imam's the pot of gold and the whole of the interior and I do NOT like that man, he is the most evil of all.

56 posted on 05/20/2011 12:15:03 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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