American Jewry's Outdated Orthodoxy

The Jewish Press ^ | 11-22-02 | Steven Plaut

[goldstategop]

Haifa U is crawling with Tenured Traitors and Marxies like Illan Pappe. Steve Plaut is one of the few professors on the campus to the right of Meretz and that's largely because he's a lecturer in that "dismal science," economics. An appreciation for real world market goings-on is enough to make a conservative out of about just any one. With the singular exception of the American Paul Krugman, one is hard pressed to named a liberal economist. Needless to say, Steve is also a wonderful e-mail list maintainer AND a wonderful satirist on all things Israeli, Jewish, Leftist, and liberal, though decidedly not in any particular order.

[NativeNewYorker]

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[NativeNewYorker]

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[Little Bill]

As a Conservitive Protestant I have never understood Jewish liberalism or for that matter Liberal Catholics. This issue has me confused, the most conservitive people I know are Jews and Catholics as are the most liberal people I know,

[dennisw]

PING!

[MarkL]

I am quite confused by it myself...

This may be the most insightful article that I've ever read on the subject of liberal Jews. It explains the pathology that I've seen over and over again, not just in the world around me, but in my own family as well.

Mark

[Victoria Delsoul]

So, then, far from being a movement whose time has passed, Zionism can play a vital opposition role to the liberal pseudo-Judaism of the Diaspora. Because Zionism, whatever its other shortcomings, is necessarily and quintessentially a negation of the assimilationist ``Liberalism as Judaism`` orthodoxy that dominates American (and other Western) Jewry.

Agreed.

[Inyokern]

100% on the mark.

[Nachum]

Good article. I had to stop reading the Jewish Press...

I kept on grinding my teeth!

[NorthernRight]

...I had to stop reading the Jewish Press...

I kept on grinding my teeth!

Was that because of the Jewish Press' well documented accounts of liberal Jewish perfidy? My own take is that The Jewish Press is very conservative, and publishes many conservative commentators. the JP is one of the few Jewish voices of sanity.

[glc1173@aol.com]

Or, as right-wing Jewish talk-radio host Dennis Prager put it at my synagogue in 1993, "the real religion of most American Jews is liberalism - not Judaism."

Read Steven Plaut's weekly column in Alamance Independent.

[Nachum]

Was that because of the Jewish Press' well documented accounts of liberal Jewish perfidy?

Well, it is more that reading the accounts depressed me. It is kind of like the joke about the two Jews riding a train in communist Russia. One was reading a government publication full of lies, and the other was reading a local Jewish paper about the latest atrocities visited on the Jews by the communists. Finally, the Jew who was reading the truthful account could not stand it anymore and spoke to his fellow Jew on the train-

"Tell me reb Yid, why are you reading that horrible paper of communist lies! It says that Jews have all the power, money, and are persecuting the gentiles."

The other Jew put down his paper and said thoughtfully:

"I used to read the paper you do and it depressed me. It had nothing but bad news, the lastest arrest, pogrom, or persecution. Now I read this paper. It says that Jews have all the power and money! I would rather read the good news!"

You see, I like the good news too.

[dennisw]

Hahahaha FUNNY!

[beowolf]

LOL...It (the communist newspaper) sounds like Liberty Forum on it's 'nice' days!-)

[Incorrigible]

Alan Dershowitz, icon of the liberals.

[Incorrigible]

In Piscataway, NJ there was a large settlement of "Trotskyites" between the world wars.  They were Jewish by heritage but their Atheist communist beliefs didn't make them popular and of course, like most collectives, it ended when no one would work.

This article is correct to say that it started in the 1930's.

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (AKA Leon Trotsky)

[Taiwan Bocks]

I haven't thanked you in awhile.

Sure do appreciate your posting and pinging work,

and your generosity!

[onedoug]

Thanks for the flag, d. Great, if depressing article.

glc1173@aol.com, Dennis Prager bump.

I'll share this.