The Jewish people are attempting to do as well for themselves as they can for now without acknowledging the need of a Savior. It is by the grace of God that they continue. There is a plan and place in the future for them, and if they vanish the whole Christian bible has been wrong.
Without the Savior in their view, their focus is at best imperfect. I keep on saying, until I am blue in the face, that liberalism is quite often an attempt to do the love aspect of Christianity but without the power and authority of Christ. It will never work because it is as fallen as the rest of humanity. Even “conservatism” had better watch itself lest it forget God, begin riding on pride instead, and find in itself its own nemesis.
How DARE you bequeath upon yourself the authority to state that "their focus is at best imperfect" and that is due to the absence of YOUR god in their lives? Similarly, my religion does not need Allah, Zeus, Shango, Quetzalcoatl, or Vishnu.
Rabbi Shimon HaTzeddik ("Simon the Righteous") was the High Priest in the early Second Temple period. He lived at the end of the period of the Knesset Hagedola ("Great Assembly"). In the Talmud, in the tractate Pirkei Avos ("The Ethics of the Fathers") , he says that "The world is based upon three things: on Torah, on service [of G-d], and on acts of kindness." This is one of the best-known and most-quoted passages of Torah.
The constant exhortation to Jews since infancy to do kindness has to have, as we say in biology, a "target organ". This is defined as "a tissue or organ upon which a hormone exerts its action". In other words, there is specific tissue which responds to the actions of a hormone, and the presence of the hormone has no effect on other types of tissues. If the Jew in question has been deprived of a Torah education, they have not been schooled in appropriate target organs for the kindness they've been bred for, for countless generations. Thus they take up with non-Jewish causes in a sad attempt to take out their urge to do "kindness". There is nothing wrong with their wanting to "do good"; it's what they choose to apply their energies to which is the question.
The answer is to have a concerted effort to make sure more Jewish children have an appropriate Torah education so that they will channel their prodigious energies into the causes the Torah intended them to be directed toward instead of these poor secular substitutes. Certainly not the injection of elements of other religions into a religion which is perfect just the way it is.
Amen, and I agree in response to the second paragraph about conservatives. We cannot be fighting each other.