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Republican Jews struggle with Trump candidacy
Arutz Sheva ^ | 7/19/16 | Ron Kampeas

Posted on 07/19/2016 3:01:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

JTA - Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency rolled out its Israel Advisory Committee last week -- no one noticed.

Blame the unrelenting news cycle, if you will: July 14 was the day of the hideous mass killing in Nice, France.

But also, his Israel Advisory Committee consists of exactly three Jews, including two who work for him.

Not much news here, move along.

Trump’s unusual campaign extends to its Jewish outreach, or rather his lack of Jewish outreach resembling anything that has come under that rubric in other campaigns.

Campaigns routinely distribute talking points to Jewish supporters and cultivate them as “validators,” folks who will appear on their behalf in the community and Jewish media making their case. But insiders say that Republican Jews who want to support Trump within their community have heard … crickets.

No talking points. No invitations to speak on his behalf to their communities. Calls by potential supporters and donors on behalf of daughters and nephews who want to volunteer go unreturned. (Like JTA's request to the Trump campaign for comment on this story.)

Tevi Troy, a deputy secretary of health under President George W. Bush and a formidable Jewish community validator for past Republican candidates, said no one has been in touch this year, but that may be because he’s not on any of the relevant lists. Troy had opposed Trump during the primaries, but once it became clear in May that Trump would be the nominee, he said he was open to persuasion.

“I don’t think they’re targeting messages specifically to the Jewish community,” he said.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gop; jewishvote; jews; trump; validators
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To: Eleutheria5

They would rather be in the OVENS than VOTE for a CHRISTIAN, it seems! My in laws feel exactly the same way....they LIVE live like Presbyterians and vote like Puerto Ricans because they DETEST CHRISTIANS!!


41 posted on 07/19/2016 3:54:02 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

They are so wedded to philosophy (how can that execrable Trump care for us if he won’t let the Mexicans and Muslims freely tramp in here) that they couldn’t see a blessing if it made another mountain smoke.


42 posted on 07/19/2016 3:57:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Ann Archy

There has been exactly one President who was not a Christian in well over 200 years. So if we Jooos! are so against voting for Christians, for whom did we vote? Also, what do you mean “they,” Kimosavee? Do you really think Jews are some monolithic entity? I don’t normally detest Christians, but in your case I’m willing to make an exception.


43 posted on 07/19/2016 3:57:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: montag813
Jews are a hopeless task.

I'm not sure that's entirely true.A couple of years ago I attended a talk given by Mark Steyn at a synagogue in suburban Boston.Before Steyn spoke the Rabbi spoke for about 10 minutes and he sounded pretty conservative to me.I'm still on their mailing list...they invite some pretty interesting people to speak there.

Steyn,BTW,was amazing...even better than he is when filling in for Rush.

44 posted on 07/19/2016 3:58:09 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (What Did Loretta and BillyBob Discuss For 30 Minutes In Phoenix? Grandchildren?)
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To: Eleutheria5

Look at the left side of your extended family, E. This is sadly empirical.


45 posted on 07/19/2016 3:59:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Also, since when is Donald Trump some paradigm of Christian virtue? He’s tossed his wife over for a younger model, and hurt his share of people.


46 posted on 07/19/2016 3:59:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The more religious, the less amorously embracing of the left.


47 posted on 07/19/2016 4:00:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Eleutheria5

FU....I am speaking froma fairly large Jewish Family that I married into.....They are ALL LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, except for my husband and my MIL and FIL have stated outwardly that they can’t stand the Republican Party because it’s ALL CHRISTIANS!!! THEY DID NOT ATTEND or CATHOLIC WEDDING!!!! BUT they took all the leftover food!!!


48 posted on 07/19/2016 4:00:24 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Exactly at whom I am looking. You cannot keep them away from voting for a yellow dog, so long as it’s a Dem.


49 posted on 07/19/2016 4:00:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Maybe Uriah of biblical fame would rather have been jilted than killed?

The sad early story of later heroes does not stop at the church door.


50 posted on 07/19/2016 4:01:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Ann Archy
They would rather be in the OVENS than VOTE for a CHRISTIAN, it seems! My in laws feel exactly the same way....they LIVE live like Presbyterians and vote like Puerto Ricans because they DETEST CHRISTIANS!!

I read a lot of downright moronic comments here on Free Republic, but yours deserves a special mention. No Jews I know DETEST CHRISTIANS. Quiet the contrary. Christians are now the biggest group of supporters of Israel on the planet. I have always voted for the best conservative candidate. I assume most were Christians, but I really don't care.

51 posted on 07/19/2016 4:06:43 PM PDT by Blennos
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To: ml/nj

“Be Surprised” my ASS. The history of the Jews is the history of a suicidal, self hating people. With overwhelming Jewish support, the genocidal leftist muzlim onslaught will continue unabated.


52 posted on 07/19/2016 4:06:59 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The more religious, the less amorously embracing of the left.

You've got it exactly right. The more religious folks, Jews and Christians, tend to be much more conservative. Orthodox Jews overwhelmingly vote conservative. The great majority of born-again Christians tend to vote conservative.

53 posted on 07/19/2016 4:10:36 PM PDT by Blennos
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To: Eleutheria5

“There has been exactly one President who was not a Christian in well over 200 years.”

Clinocchio only pretended to be a Christian, so that’s two.


54 posted on 07/19/2016 4:10:44 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Eleutheria5

a mostly ridiculous story

majority of American “Jews” are JINOs and secular and mostly vote D anyway, they aren’t struggling with Trump at all

growing number of American “Jews” are keeping the faith... and Biblically faithful people naturally include or pick up moral values.... which leads one mostly to the more conservative side of politics, the side of liberty and opportunity for all

essentially all of our American and American Founders’ values derived from Biblical faith .... as John Adams noted, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Those Jews and Christians that totally abandon their faith traditions (or fool themselves perhaps into thinking they’re still faithful...while attending essentially anti=Biblical leftist/liberal/reform/progressive churches and synagogues)........ these folks usually lose most of their moral values too. Result: they vote D.


55 posted on 07/19/2016 4:10:53 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The more religious, the less amorously embracing of the left.

I think that's generally true here and elsewhere in the West.I've seen it written that about half of Americans who call themselves "Jewish" are,in fact,atheists.So "Jew" somehow has become an ethnicity rather than a religious preference.

56 posted on 07/19/2016 4:15:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (What Did Loretta and BillyBob Discuss For 30 Minutes In Phoenix? Grandchildren?)
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To: NYAmerican
The history of the Jews is the history of a suicidal, self hating people.

You are viewing history within the blinders of a modern mind-set. If the Jews were a "suicidal, self hating people," they would not have survived on this planet for more than 3000 years. Thousands of other groups did not survive. I don't think you really understand much about the history of the Jewish people.

Left-wing progressives are indeed suicidal and too many, not all, Jews in this country are left-wing progressives. But there are millions of Jews, here and in Israel, who not belong to this ideology.

57 posted on 07/19/2016 4:15:57 PM PDT by Blennos
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

#13: The poster for “Killer Clowns From Outerspace” movie.


58 posted on 07/19/2016 4:16:14 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Blennos

Then you are BLESSED that you know only conservatives Christians and Jews!! BLESSED!! Because I am only surrounded by LIBERAL JEWS!! And they DETEST Rebulicans because they think they are too Christian!! WAlk a mile in MY shoes, bub.


59 posted on 07/19/2016 4:17:12 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Dumb Debbie Wasserman Schulz is giving Trump more Jewish voters than imaged, and Alan Grayson, the psychocrook, is adding to that Jews for Trump vote too.

I think a lot of people are going to be surprised in November as to how many more Jews voted this time.

After all, all you have to say about Hillary and Israel is “Look at how she helped Libya and Syria”. Nuff said!!


60 posted on 07/19/2016 4:22:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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