The One Number That Shows Why Jews Really Vote Liberal

FrontPage Magazine ^ | June 25, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield

[george76]

The debate over why Jews vote the way that they do is an old one, but it’s rarely backed by much data except the estimates of the Jewish vote from the last election.

There is, however, one piece of data that currently predicts the Jewish vote. It’s religious attendance.

60 percent of Jews that attend weekly religious services disapprove of Obama. Only 34 percent approve.

Among those who don’t attend religious services, approval of Obama stood at 58 percent to 38 percent.

There are really two Jewish votes; the religious Jewish vote and the secular Jewish vote.

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When we break it down by behaviors and beliefs, the Jewish vote is not that different than the overall American vote. What is different is the balance of behaviors and beliefs in the Jewish community.

Only 11 percent of American Jews attend religious services weekly. Among Americans in general, it’s over 40 percent...

American Jews had become a liberal outlier globally as Jews in the UK, Canada, Israel and Australia were voting conservative. And Jewish communities in those countries also tend to be relatively more traditional and religious than in the United States.

UK Jews are more than twice as likely to attend synagogue services weekly as American Jews.

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When asked what it means to be Jewish, 56 percent of American Jews mentioned social justice, 42 percent mentioned comedy and only 43 percent mentioned Israel. 28 percent mentioned being part of a Jewish community. Only 19 percent mentioned anything involving religion.

People with Jewish last names for whom being Jewish is leftist politics and a joke should not be expected to care about Israel. If being Jewish means nothing to them, why would the Jewish State?

[jjotto]

Here’s a start for ‘Abraham’s Chromosomes’:

http://www.aish.com/ci/sam/48944786.html

[Cronos]

Being a “Jew” is both a religious and a community thing — that’s true for other socio-religious groups like Parsis, Armenians, Amish etc.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Well, you’re wrong on most of what you said. But you repeat the common narrative very well, so I’m sure you got a gold star that day.

Read up on it. Start with Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe.

[rmlew]

Read up on it. Start with Koestler’s The Thirteenth Tribe.
So instead of looking at modern genetics history, recent historical works, or the book that Koestler plagerized, Dulop's The History of the Jewish Khazars you want to cite a political hack whose previous work was on psychic ability? Unless you have actually read Dunlop, Goldin, Brooks, and Gumilev walk away from the discussion. I have no desire to embarrass you further.

[Cronos]

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve downloaded it and am reading it now.

[wardaddy]

Many of today’s modern Eastern European Jews for sure bear Khazar physical traits
Israel has done a good bit of scholarship on this all controversial

It’s ironic that a people’s who so eschew the religion given them by God in contrast are dead serious about the business of who is Jewish or not

Which tells me they know it’s a divine birthright and that they are wrong to deny at a minimum their original pre Talmudic instruction handed them specifically by the creator of all we know or ever will