Posted on 10/18/2012 2:17:06 AM PDT by markomalley
"Two Jews, three opinions" goes the famous joke. And every day, more of those opinions turn pro-Romney, as American Jews increasingly reject the collapsing presidency of Barack Hussein Obama.
Romney's surging poll numbers in the crucial state of Florida reflect his growing success with Bubbie Molly and her unemployed grandson Adam, who both thought their right hand would wither if it ever pulled the lever for a Republican.
The signs and portents are everywhere, beginning with the special election of a Republican in Anthony Weiner's heavily Jewish, New York congressional district one year ago. Now a startling new poll even has Romney performing the ultimate miracle: the parting of the blue states, winning the Jewish vote by a healthy 44% to 40%!
Florida activist Alan Bergstein described his recent experience advocating for Romney in the Jewish stronghold of Delray Beach. "Of about 100 entering and leaving the Bagel Tree eatery in that plaza, we ran into only two Democrats and loads and loads of Romney supporters. They stopped to talk to us, to congratulate us and to support us with their views of the Ryan/Biden debate. They were militant and fearless."
What's driving the Jewish exodus from the Democratic Party? Like everyone else, Jews are singing the bad economy blues. But they're also increasingly acknowledging the uncomfortable facts about Obama's hostility towards Israel and its Jewish supporters.
"Absolutely Uncertain," a 20-minute YouTube video starring 23-year-old Irina, a disillusioned Obama voter who analyzes the president's harsh treatment of Israel, racked up an astonishing 650,000 views in just three days. The Republican Jewish Coalition's video, "Perilous Times," is closing in on a million views, as anxious Jewish voters seek information outside the mainstream media to understand the accelerating nuclear threat to Israel from Iran.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Geesh....really....people don't read and comprehend very well! And the more I get ATTACKED because I am saying TRUE things about my IN LAWS, welllllll..........you all could be proving my point. Just saying.
I have very little patience with so-called Christians who are anti-Semitic or who want to want to sow hatred between Jews and Christians.
Bible-believing Christians, and **ESPECIALLY** Calvinists who have a high view of the Hebrew Bible as well as the New Testament, ought to be the strongest friends and defenders of the Jewish people.
There are reasons why Oliver Cromwell fought hard against tremendous opposition to get rid of a law that for centuries had barred Jewish people from living openly in England, why Jewish people were allowed to build a synagogue in New York during a period when Lutherans and Roman Catholics were not allowed to build churches, and why Dutch Reformed ministers were learning Hebrew from rabbis and helping them get religious literature printed in the days that Jews in other parts of Europe were being persecuted and having not only their books but also their shops, their homes, and sometimes their bodies burned.
I realize we're not going to agree on some very important issues.
However, the simple fact of the matter is that my Bible tells me I'm required to have a very high view of G-d’s chosen people, and Christians who want to eliminate the Jewish character of the Scriptures end up with something that has no relationship to the faith taught by Jesus and the apostles.
Adolf Hitler's efforts to create an Aryanized “German Christian” movement were doomed to failure, since even in the liberalized churches of Germany, enough people understood that the theology of the “Reichsbishop,” Ludwig Mueller, were flat-out incompatible with the Bible.
Frankly, too many Christians give Christianity a bad name, and they need to go back and read their Bibles. Praying for the peace of Jerusalem is mandatory for Christians, and especially for those who still sing the Psalms in worship.
YOU said:
“I believe, sadly, that they hate Christians more than they do Muslims who are trying to wipe them out!!! Go F’ing figure.....idiocy.....hatred.”
You did not say a darn thing about your in-laws. Just Jews, in general.
Why do you expect everyone else on the planet to schlep through 83 posts to glean your actual intent? How is that my responsibility?
YOU phrased your original post badly.
Take responsibility for your mistake instead of jumping down the throats of people who will not accept glittering generalizations aimed at an entire group of people. Or do you expect me to wade through the entire thread for me to figure out what you *meant* to say about the Jewish people?
Just a little quibble here: I think you are referring to New Amsterdam, before it became New York. Yes, that was the first place in what is now the United States where Jews settled in 1654. They were Sephardic Jews (i.e., of Spanish origin or descent) who arrived from Brazil.
BTW, I was unaware that Lutherans and Catholics were not allowed to build churches there at the time. I believe that the Dutch were considered the most socially and economically advanced culture in Europe then, so it's a little surprising to me.
I kewft the ad biz in 1992 -- when CBS Outdoor used to be 3M/National. At that time, no outdoor plant would've adapted a management attitude such as you describe.
In twenty years, I'll grant that could've changed. But it's hard to imagine serious businesses being managed in such a fashion (TV networks have never been "serious businesses")
The Dutch agreed to let the Jews stay in New Amsterdam after some initial objections, but that's not the same as allowing a synagogue to be built (and of course, it would have taken some time for the community to be able to afford to build one). I would need to do some research to find out exactly when the first synagogue was built and whether it was under Dutch rule or under early British rule when most of the people in charge were still Dutch but the British had final authority. I don't want to run the risk of giving wrong information based on memory.
On the broader issue — yes, the Dutch of the 1600s were very tolerant toward Jews, but not toward most other religious groups. I think it can fairly be said that the level of toleration extended by the Dutch to Jews was truly unique, was of a very different character from how many other dissenting Christian groups were treated, and was based largely on the sort of theology that develops in a church which places a very high value on the Hebrew Bible rather than just the New Testament.
For example, the international Synod of Dordt (sometimes spelled “Dort”) was held specifically to expel non-Calvinists from the Dutch churches, and the canons created by that synod found wide acceptance elsewhere in other Calvinist churches of Europe. The Dutch were nothing if not precise in their theology.
The Dutch government and the de facto “state church” had a wide variety of different attitudes toward other churches, ranging from full fellowship with some churches that shared the same faith but a different language and ecclesiastical structure, on the one hand, to open hostility with regard to some church groups such as the Remonstrants. The Dutch attitude toward Roman Catholics was the most severe of all, which is not hard to understand considering that the Dutch had only recently been ruled by Spaniards who had killed thousands of Protestants and tried to impose the full vigor of the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. As a Jewish person, you know far too well what that meant for Jews, and Protestants weren't treated very well, either, by the Spanish rulers sent to re-Catholicize the Netherlands.
Full equality for Jewish people is now pretty much an accepted principle of American politics. There was a day when that principle was radical and had to be defended.
For those of us who are conservatives and value original intent of the Constitution, we need to affirm that the clear and obvious original intent of the Founding Fathers was to extend full rights of citizenship to Jewish people and to Roman Catholics. That was not the case in England, it was not the case in most Protestant countries of Europe, and it was a truly radical position for its time.
We need to affirm that position if we are going to be Americans who value the Constitution. The Constitution is not a “wax nose,” words have meanings, and we can't use liberal methods of interpretation to twist the Founders’ words in ways they would never have recognized.
thank you
that was very kind
i won’t forget it...and if i do remind me
apologies on this austere site are rare as witches teeth
About damned time!
...it's the tangle that confounds the over reformed (or liberal) Jew—to be defended by a faith that calls them incomplete before God.
But it is nice to be alive enough to be confounded I should think and if those we hate keep us alive...well
“Any day above ground is a good day” the Holocaust survivors used to say.
Well the Israelis certainly said thank you by supplying the US with a lot of Soviet military equipment, captured and shot down, that the US wanted a look at. It was the beginning of a mutually beneficial alliance.
You know, very often we cannot see the forest for the trees.
Jews fought (my late father) and died in WWII.
I echo this.
I echo this.
Echo of a echo?
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