[Pearls Before Swine]

If any Jew ever votes Dem again then they need to seek some help...

Let's talk about that after the next election.

Jews have had it pretty good in the US for the past 50 to 75 years, as have most of us. They don't feel the pull to Judaism; for many their religion is liberalism.

[Rusty0604]

Yep, I worked with a communist Jew.

[Bryanw92]

>>Jews have had it pretty good in the US for the past 50 to 75 years, as have most of us. They don’t feel the pull to Judaism; for many their religion is liberalism.

sadly, you are right. They helped to bring Marx to Russia, Germany, and the United States. They live in world where their temple was destroyed almost 2000 years ago. They reject Christ and can’t practice the Law. What pull does Judaism hold in that reality?

[tanknetter]

Jews have had it pretty good in the US for the past 50 to 75 years, as have most of us. They don't feel the pull to Judaism; for many their religion is liberalism.

In undergrad, I was involved in a conversation with some friends over support for Israel, and specifically that Reagan had been one of the best friends Israel had.

Several of them happened to be Jewish, and they lined up on the issue predictably, according to Party ID.

But there was something else as well. One of the Republicans got ticked off and asked the Democrats "who is your closest relative lost to the Holocaust?" The Democrats couldn't name one, while the Republicans could each name several (cousins, great aunts and uncles).

As it turned out, the Democrats' relatives had mostly come to the US right before or immediately after the turn of the Century. The Republicans' had mostly come later, 1930s onward (the one exception's great-great grandparents had fled the Russian pogroms in the late 1800s).

So the real differentiator between them wasn't really Party ID; it was how far removed they were from the experience of the Holocaust (or in the one case, Pogroms). The ones with closer (much closer) institutional/familial knowledge of severe oppression and antisemitism were also the ones who were more Conservative and stauncher supporters of Israel.