Posted on 09/30/2013 10:35:51 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
ews in the United States are overwhelmingly proud to be Jewish, yet nearly one in five of them describe themselves as having no religion, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Tuesday.
The gap is generational, with 32 percent of Jews born after 1980 identifying as Jewish on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture – compared with 93 percent of Jews born in 1914-27 who identified on the basis of their faith.
"This shift in Jewish self-identification reflects broader changes in the US public," said Pew's Religion and Public Life Project in a summary of its 210-page report.
"Americans as a whole – not just Jews – increasingly eschew any religious affiliation," with 22 percent of all Americans identifying with no particular faith, it said.
Nevertheless, 94 percent of respondents said they were proud to be Jewish, while seven out of 10 felt either very attached or somewhat attached to Israel, a proportion essentially unchanged since the turn of the 21st century, Pew said.
Forty percent believe that the land of Israel was “given to the Jewish people by God,” ....
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He is a Jew, no matter what religion he decides he believes in, even Islam or Satanism (there is a difference, I think). If that’s the way the State of Israel views it, they’re at variance with halacha.
That stereotype about Jews being smart? Don’t believe it.
The Menashites are back, having lived for 2,700 years around India and China. The Tribe of Dan is partially back from Ethiopia. The Bucharans are from the Tribe of Naftali. Levites and Cohanim are mixed with all the other tribes, including Judah and Benjamin. As for the remaining tribes, they’ll be along. I’ve heard that the fanatically Islamic Pashtuns might be from Efraim, and hope that’s just a bogus claim, very common in Afghanistan.
Thank you for this answer. I really don’t know much about it. I thought that the immigration rules in Israel were made by a board of Orthodox Rabbis, who (it seems to me) would be guided exclusively by halacha. But perhaps they themselves are in violation? It seems strange.
Rabbis have nothing to do with the running of the state, which is by a cabal of anti-religious socialistic liars, no matter who gets elected. And the religious parties have never had a majority. This year, they’re not even in the government, other than Bennett’s semi-religious party.
"I quite realized", said Columbus,
"That the Earth is not a rhombus;
But I am more than a little annoyed,
To find it an oblate spheroid!"
(E.C.Bentley)
Not as much a religion thing as a persecution thing. I don't think Rabbis are involved at all.
The Reich, I think, didn’t care if you took a different faith. They believed Jewishness was a genetic disease that had to be eradicated by killing all carriers of the gene.
Thanks for your answer, SJackson. I guess I'll have to look into this further when I get a chance, because it's complicated. For instance, consider that many thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people of Jewish ancestry were killed in WWII, even though they were baptized Christians, because to the Nazis they were racially Jews. It was a race thing, a race-euthanasia.
This is how a Catholic saint, Edith Stein, was killed, even though she was a Carmelite nun: she and her sister Rosa were arrested in the convent which was their home, put on a train to Auschwitz, and gassed the day they arrived.
At the time of her canonization as St. Benedicta, just a few years ago, there was a spate of controversy because the question was tossed about, "But was she killed as a Jew or as a Catholic? And, if as a Jew, can the Catholic Church claim her as a martyr?"
It's fairly clear from the record that Sr. Benedicta/Edith would have said "Yes, both.' But sometimes the person's own self-understanding is not taken as the last word.
Anti Christ sentiment.
That’s what supporting the left is, at its core.
Sorry, I didn’t quite get what you are trying to say.
The reason that [liberal] American Jews vote for the left is the same as the reason they crucified Him - they reject Him as the Savior, and position themselves against His people today.
Ironic, though, because those people are the biggest supporters of God’s original people that you could find.
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