WTH is wrong with some ethnic Jews?
“WTH is wrong with some ethnic Jews?”
I’ll give you two answers, one theological, one practical:
Theological
Jewish people are designed by G-d to be religious, and more specifically, Jewish. If they are not practicing Judaism, they replace that innate nature to worship G-d with the worship of something else.
Practical:
Due to European laws forbidding land ownership by Jews, Jewish people became historically involved in urban industries — from blacksmith to sailor to tinker to tailors. They accordingly settled in the port cities in the USA north east, now New York, etc. And like all north eastern urban people, they are overwhelmingly liberals.