Posted on 01/31/2017 9:17:26 PM PST by Tours
“Reform Jews are not religious Jews.”
Umm...they are still Jews. The definition of being a Jew is far more than being Ultra-orthodox.
Observant Jews of the United States will applaud this nomination of someone who understands the Constitutional right to freedom of religion. The Reform and Conservative Movement of Judaism have long since been infiltrated by the same Marxists who infiltrated some of the big Protestant denominations and a portion of Catholics. They threw out God and brought in today’s Marxist infiltrated Democratic Party as a substitute.
The Reform and Conservative Movements top leaders have already jumped on the bandwagon that falsely characterized President Trump’s three month moratorium. Ditto for the Jewish Federations. Truly pitiful. The leadership are the culprits. They are making up completely untrue, grotesquely distorted claims that these Muslim “refugees” are no different from Jews who were trying to escape Hitler and were turned and were killed. No Jew was a terrorist. No Jew wanted to convert all of the U.S. to Judaism on threat of death. This is moratorium. The “progressive” religious leadership of the Christians and Jews are showing profound stupidity, among other traits.
This article is the worst kind of propaganda. I am not surprised that it comes from the JTA (the Jewish Telegraphic Agency), which takes a hard-left slant.
The headline talks about polarizing “religious” US Jewry. I don’t think that “religious” means what they think it means.
They quote a Reform Rabbi condemning Gorsuch. The reform movement has been described as “The New York Times with holidays”. It is not surprising that they are opposed to him. It would have been surprising if they were not. But the Reform movement in Judaism is not regarded as “religious” if that word means adherence to Jewish laws and respect for Jewish tradition — and if you don’t mean that, then I don’t know what “religious” means.
Meanwhile, the Orthodox person quoted in the article was full of praise for the appointment. I think that this perspective is the one held by the vast majority of Orthodox and traditional American Jews.
Agreed. The Catholics for the most part have been okay, but the Jews are an ultra-Liberal disaster. Time for a Protestant, as long as he’s not like the last one on the court - Souter!
Adolf was an altar boy. And I think he got the Anabaptists to dunk him.
If he bar mitzvah’d too, he must have really been covering his bases.
Hitler never had a Bar Mitzvah. He was not Jewish and did not identify as Jewish. Do you really think that if it had been otherwise, that fact would not have become common knowledge before, during, or after World War II?
I don’t know if you are trolling us or you actually believe this. I don’t know which is worse.
what BS!
of course the leftwing is gonna bitch about almost anything DJT does
and most “reform” Jews tend to be included in the left wing.
sadly but its a fact.
SO, a relatively leftist paper like JPost (and certainly the even more extremely leftist papers) can always find “reform” Jews (that, usually, nobody has ever heard of) to make statements questioning DJT
big Fg deal!
this is not a news story. there’s no news in it, other than DJT has nominated his candidate for the job.
Huh?
“No Jew was a terrorist.”
Well....check out Stern and Urgun. King David Hotel....
I don’t think that you can fairly blame all of the social ills of the Western world on the Jews. There just aren’t that many of us, and we don’t control what you apparently think we do.
Very well put, SMCN.
“...can always find “reform” Jews (that, usually, nobody has ever heard of) to make statements questioning DJT...”
The vast majority of U.S. Jews are liberal and democrats. About 70% voted for Hillary. This is not a fringe group of Jews. It could be called the “mainstream”.
Soros funded group. That is all we need to know.
You may find interesting this article trying to explain the large Catholic vote for Hillary: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440122/hillary-clinton-catholic-vote-why-has-she-apparently-won-it
I don’t think that castigating “the Jews” is the right way to go.
Hitler was an altar boy in the Catholic church. Editor says he was Jewish. I say he was Anabaptist.
Try to keep up.
A lot of what you say is true, but an increasing proportion of Israelis and world Jewry does keep the commandments. Check out the orthodox communities and neighborhoods and you will see family life and modesty.
The state of Israel is trying to be all things to all people and that is the problem.
Many of its academics were trained in the West and in the process caught the disease of “progressivism.”
Having the Fifth Column of Muslims, including in the Knesset, trying to destroy the Jewish state, doesn’t help, either.
Those Jews who have tragically followed the Sirens’ song to nihilism will not be Jews in another one or two generations.
Some of the children, after running after East religions, seeking the spirituality that was missing, do fortunately find that their own monotheistic religion is the source of all that is good in Western Civilization. It is the richest one, with the most to offer for living an ethical and uplifted life.
Demographers already see in today’s U.S. cities that only observant Judaism, with awe and respect and carryout out God’s teachings, will remain in the diaspora.
Are you an Israeli?
It is what it is....
White Catholics voted for Trump.
Hispanics voted like the Jews, Muslims and Asians - around 70% for Hillary.
To clarify, the majority of white Catholics voted for Trump. As did the majority of white Protestants.
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