Yes! You’re probably right. But FR is also one of those places it seems. :-)
AIPAC is not a political action committee- it doesn’t fund candidates. It is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and was created before there was any such thing as a PAC. Something is happening in the Jewish community. In June at the New England AIPAC dinner, Barney Frank was booed by the crowd of 1400. It was so loud, it came through the sound system into another room where my son was.
I am obsessed with the fact that Jews are more liberal than the rest of America. It kills me. Almost all the sign holders in my town for Scott Brown were Jewish as were all the delegates at the Republican State convention in MA.
I asked my rabbi why religiously conservative Jews were more likely to be politically conservative than religiously liberal Jews. He thought that it is because the conservatives take our founding documents more seriously, whether it’s the Torah or the constitution. Conservatives are less willing to alter founding ideals for our own short-term needs. Liberals want to throw it all out- Torah and constitution. I thought that was an interesting notion.