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To: stentorian conservative
Someone please, please help me understand why Jews choose to vote for a Party of Islamic sympathizers?

Tikkun olam.

83 posted on 09/21/2008 11:12:28 AM PDT by drubyfive
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To: drubyfive

Because Jews are socialists. There are of course exceptions but taken as a whole, they prefer the government control.


85 posted on 09/21/2008 11:16:08 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: drubyfive
Tikkun olam.

Was that sarcasm?
97 posted on 09/21/2008 11:40:35 AM PDT by stentorian conservative
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To: drubyfive
Tikkun olam.

"Tikkun olam" is a very nebulous Hebrew language phrase that is subject to as many different interpretations as people trying to translate/interpret it. Roughly, "tikkun" means "repair" (even auto shops in Israel use the word) and "olam" means "the world." It is not a fundamental principle of Judaism at all, as it is merely mentioned once in the Talmud (so I'm told by a rabbi) in a context totally different from what the Jewish left thinks it means.

Clearly, the Jewish left has co-opted that phrase as a rallying cry and put its own spin on it, and would have one believe that Judaism equates with their leftist ideology. Their interpretation is just one of many.

145 posted on 09/21/2008 3:04:26 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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