Posted on 04/25/2006 4:51:39 AM PDT by unionblue83
The most frequently asked question I receive from non-Jews about Jews is, why are Jews so liberal?
The question is entirely legitimate since Jews (outside of Israel) are indeed overwhelmingly liberal and disproportionately left of liberal as well. For example, other than blacks, no American group votes so lopsidedly for the Democratic Party. And the question is further sharpened given that traditional Jewish values are not leftist. That is why the more religiously involved the Jew, the less likely he is to be on the Left. The old saw, "There are two types of Jews -- those who believe Judaism is social justice and those who know Hebrew," contains more than a kernel of truth.
In no order of importance, here are six reasons:
1. Judaism is indeed preoccupied with social justice (as well as with holiness and personal morality), and many Jews believe that the only way to achieve a just society is through leftist policies.
2. More than any other major religion, Judaism has always been preoccupied with this world. The (secular) Encyclopedia Judaica begins its entry on "Afterlife" by noting that "Judaism has always affirmed belief in an afterlife." But the preoccupation of Judaism has been making this world a better place. That is why the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) is largely silent about the afterlife; and it is preoccupied with rejecting ancient Egyptian values. That value system was centered on the afterlife -- its bible was the Book of the Dead, and its greatest monuments, the pyramids, were tombs.
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"Whatever the reason, Stalin fomented the Doctor's plot hysteria and broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. He was within days of preparing to exile the Soviet Jews to the Gulag (as was done previously with various other ethnic minorities such as the Crimean Tatars, Chechens, etc.), and initiate another great purge along the lines of 1938. The important thing to recall is that the Doctor's Plot happened at the same time as the McCarthy anti communist business from 1950-54 Stalin already had the concentration camps set up. And some of the preliminary accusations had gone out for the Doctor's Plot when he died in 1953."While "The Doctors Plot" was a very real and sad affair (my paternal grandmother was affected by it, by losing her position as a head of the hospital and for awhile forbidden to undertake any medical profession) the "deportation" theory in connection to it is rather controversial, to say the least. The Deportation Controversy There is very little historical evidence to support the theory.
Bump.
War is very much part of the leftist makeup only it is internal war. It is the war to force its own population into cookie cutter compliance with leftist designs. And the term is not merely metaphorical. The more powerful the leftist state the more violent it is internally. Germany had the Holocaust. Russian had its Famine. China its Great leap Forward. We merely get an occasional Waco but the lefter we get the more such we will have.
Just curious how you managed to dig up this old article? I agree with your take on the left. They say they hate totalitarian yet will set up a totalitarian system to prevent it. It becomes Orwellian in the end.
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