Good article, and nice to hear from the other side of Judiasm. I have to say, so often I am mystified by the seemingly greater Jewish community.
Here's his web site: http://www.rabbiforsenate.com/.
And mystified you will remain. The mind of a secular Jew is a psychological study in contradiction and hypocrisy.
They have just a bizarre way of thinking and, unlike most of us, are able to hold two utterly opposite “truths” in their head as both being equally valid.
Furthermore, they have the ability to totally disregard reality, history, and the objective results of their own beliefs and actions.
This mind warp contributes to the much repeated axiom that the majority of secular Jews generally hate the candidate or group that supports them, and support the ones who hate them. It is truly inexplicable.
Secularist in Israel and in America do not view their Jewishness as a religion but rather as a race. It is a key to the clubhouse and nothing more. In fact their are Jews who are as antisemitic as you could ever imagine, but still would never let any of their children marry a Gentile and still push to have Christmas trees torn down. Well, wait a minute. If you are atheist, how can you be offended by a decorated tree or by who your children marry? (contradiction and hypocrisy)
As a scientist, I am bound by the laws of logic and cannot possibly think in this loopy, emotional, desultory, way.
This is certainly not meant to be a slam on Jews. That is not my intent by any means. I spent years in Israel and speak and read Hebrew.
I am just discussing aspects of my own experience which were stimulated by the Rabbi’s article.
I don’t mean to mad but merely to express my amazement. Many Jews I met are just impossible to understand because their reasoning seems to follow no rational “rules”.
Idunno?