Why Bother Being Jewish?

Front Page Magazine ^ | 10/8/2013 | Connie Glick

[SkyDancer]

It’s not the question of being Jewish. It’s you >are< Jewish. It’s something you’re born with. It’s not like being American is some sort of culture/religion with certain customs. Maybe in the US or the rest of the world but in Israel ..... if the article is somehow true then the Jews would leave Israel to the so-called Palestinians.

[montag813]

Jews-In-Name-Only (JINOs) are intermarrying, turning gay and getting abortions. They are 78% Democrat. Meanwhile, religious Jews are having 8 kids per family. They are 68% Republican. It will take a while, but 20 years from now, American Jews will be a solid conservative bloc. It is worth the wait.

[montag813]

My girlfriend is Jewish. There’s no way I would raise my children Jewish since a majority of American Jews actually have no faith. When seventy percent of your religion supports a President that is hostile to your homeland, you’ve really gone off the deep end. One day, I’ll teach my children about the rich history of the Jewish people, but I see no reason why I would ever allow them to be affiliated with American Judaism.

Please do her a favor. Do NOT marry her.

[onyx]

You're right.
Actually, since I often don't see her columns posted here, I check her own site, at least twice a month. I have it bookmarked in my favorite's list.

[GladesGuru]

Your post #37 is excellent, but shouldn’t you have listed Karl Marx along with lil’ Siggie Pooh in your closing list of prominent ‘Jews” with conflicts consequent to their confusions?

[Piranha]

Judaism is a religion of communal concern. When you take G-d out of the equation you are left with a structure without morality, which expresses itself through coercive utopian systems like communism and socialism.

[CatherineofAragon]

I love that graphic....saving it just so I can pull it up and look at it.

[hlmencken3]

No future generation of Jews, and no Jew alienated from his people, can say, “Moses made a covenant with our ancestors but not with us. We didn’t give our consent. We are not bound.” To preclude this, he says these words:

Deuteronomy 29:13-14 “But not only with you am I making this covenant and this oath: but with those standing here with us today before the Lord, our God, and [also] with those who are not here with us, this day.”

[bmwcyle]

LOL

[PapaBear3625]

Are you going to deprive them of contact with their maternal grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins? How’s that going to work out?

Are you saying that if the grandchild is baptized Christian, the grandparents on the Jewish side will not talk to them?

[Piranha]

I am saying that the grandparents, aunts aunts and uncles will walk on eggshells around their daughter and grandchildren and try to figure out how to lead their grandchildren to embrace Judaism proudly. This will cause alienation in the family and if they succeed it will introduce a separation between the mother and her children on one hand and the father on the other.

[onedoug]

Not Jewish though Torah is at the center of my life.

[HawkHogan]

If you aren’t practicing, what are you walking on eggshells about? Would you rather your grand kids go to mass every week with a full spiritual life or go to Temple twice a year?

We believe in the same God. It’s not like I’m asking her to deny her belief in God.

[HawkHogan]

Why? If she’s fine with raising her kids Catholic, I don’t see how it affects her Jewish heritage.

[HawkHogan]

I feel like you think I have a problem with the Jewish religion. I don’t. My problem is the fact that many American Jewish rabbis (usually reform) actively promote an agenda contrary to Scripture. At a time when social conservative values are under attack, religious conservatives should be united. On one side we have those who believe in God and all his glory and on the other side we have the godless Liberals who only believe in the State.

[Gumdrop]

....”So in a sense, you are abandoning nothing. Because you cannot abandon what you never had in the first place.
And what Jews like Roth never had is basic Jewish literacy..”

Sounds like a lot of other progressive groupies. We now officially have JINO’s; Jews in Name Only. Apparently these Jews do not associate the ancient texts of their forefathers - the Talmud (i.e. the old Testament to Christians) as having any consequence to their very being. Just more road kill along the progressive highway. JINO’s can join the CINO’s as folks who identify as being part of a group, but are not even aware or care about what that designation means. Their relationship to their Creator is fractured.

[Netz]

Yes Marx would be there too but he was already raised a Christian and was somewhat antisemitic...

[Netz]

The Jews are in the right place, Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. Being a Jew is a religion, way of life, outlook, ritual, nationality, race, people, culture and birthright. All piled into one. So the Jews in the Land of Israel are part of a triad:

Torah of Israel
Land of Israel
People of Israel

[Piranha]

They have chosen to remain Jewish although they are not practicing Judaism. If you ask them about it, they will tell you that it doesn’t feel right for them to give up their “faith”. I understand your question but in 57 years on this earth have never met a Jew, whether a believer or not, who felt pleased that is child or grandchild was becoming active in another church.

Even if they are culturally Jewish (bagels and Seinfeld?) they remember the scene in Fiddler on the Roof when Tevye’s daughter married a Christian and he went into mourning. I am almost sure that they won’t do that themselves, but I am equally sure that they will think of that scene and relate to it.

[SkyDancer]

Yup