[Apologetics] Don Feder: Jews Occupy Front-Row Pew In Church Of Liberalism
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By Don Feder
12-01-09
Among life's most perplexing mysteries:
* Why do most Americans continue to believe Islam is the
"religion of peace" - a growing international death-toll
notwithstanding?
* Why do the French eat snails and think Jerry Lewis is funny?
* Why are women surprised that many of the men they have sex
with have absolutely no interest in marrying them?
* Why are the Jews so compulsively/tragically liberal?
My friend Ira, a Hasidic Jew who lives in the Boston-area, once
told me if he goes to vote and sees two candidates for an office, and he
knows nothing about them other than that one has a Jewish name and the
other doesn't, he automatically votes for the non-Jew. He assumes, quite
logically, that the gentile is less likely to be mushugana (just plain
nuts) than the Jew.
President Obama - the clearest evidence yet that most Jews are
delusional on matters political - just appointed Hannah Rosenthal the
State Department's special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.!
Apparently, Pat Buchanan was unavailable. Coming soon: Obama appoints
"Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Rosenthal sits on the board of J Street, the Soros-funded,
Jewish cell-group which wants negotiations with the Hitlerites of Hamas,
opposes sanctions on the nuclear-armed Holocaust-deniers of Iran, and
believes anti-Semitism is caused mainly by Israel's survival instinct.
Obama's policy toward Israel has been exactly what you'd expect
from someone who sat in church for 19 years listening to his
Afro-centrist preacher spew hatred of America, Israel and Jews, while
fawning on Farrakhan. If B.O. can't rouse Jewish voters from their
80-year coma, nothing can. Nothing can.
An October 3 headline in The National Catholic Register read,
"President Obama Finds Greatest Support Among Atheists and Jews." At
least atheist! s have it right.
The story reported on a September Gallup poll that showed 66% of
Jewish voters approve of Obama's performance, that's 22 percentage
points higher than the president's approval rating among the general
public at that time, and 27 points higher than his white Protestant
support.
Granted, this is considerably lower than Obama's 83% Jewish
approval rating in January. But the president's ratings from all
segments of the electorate have declined proportionally.
Israelis (of necessity more connected to reality) don't share
this euphoria. According to an August Jerusalem Post poll, only 4%
believe Obama's policies are "pro-Israel," versus the 51% who think
Barak Hussein is "pro-Palestinian."
! People like Norman Podhoretz (admittedly, a great man) keep
writing b ooks with titles like "Why Are Jews Liberals?" Every other
talk show that I do begins with the question: "Mr. Feder, as a
practicing Jew, perhaps you can explain why most American Jews are so
liberal, when self-interest and common sense dictate the opposite."
I can in less than 10 words: "Liberalism is the religion of
secular Jews" - as well as the religion of ex-Catholics, Jack Mormon and
many evangelicals who've left the fold.
Jews and liberalism go together like bagels and lox, blintzes
and sour cream - like ACORN and voter fraud. Podhoretz tells us that
since 1928, Democrats have, on average, taken 75% of the Jewish vote in
presidential elections.
Despite warning signs the size of billboards (surrounded by
blinking electric lights), Obama captured 78% of the Jewish vote las! t
year, compared with 53% of the electorate. Other than black voters, Jews
remain the Messiah's most reliable constituency.
The standard explanations for Jewish leftism are: 1. Like
Judaism, liberalism calls for succoring the poor and downtrodden (now
known as "social justice" - Marxism by another name) 2. In pre-war
Europe, anti-Semitism was a phenomenon of the right and 3. Having been
persecuted for most of their history, Jews tend to identify with
victims.
These rationalizations can almost be dismissed out of hand.
1. Treating the stranger justly and providing for the widow and
orphan aren't the essence of Judaism. Saying Judaism is about charity is
like saying Jesus is about love. (BTW, the Torah says you provide for
the widow and orphan, not you take the income of others to support!
them.) If there was an identity between Judaism and liberalism, why a re
the Jews who are the most ignorant of Jewish law (the most Jewishly
illiterate) the most liberal, while those who live, breath and (quite
literally) eat Torah values are the most conservative?
2. In pre-war Europe, anti-Semitism was mostly a phenomenon of
the right - except for Marxism (look at Marx's writings and the way the
commissars treated Soviet Jews) and National Socialism, another
revolutionary movement. Today, anti-Semitism is almost exclusively the
domain of the left and radical Islam (on which the left dotes). Wherever
the left is strongest - including academia and the mainstream media -
there hatred of Israel and hostility toward Jews is most pronounced.
3. Like liberals generally, Jewish liberals flatter themselves
by imagining a bond with the poor and persecuted. That's why they seek
to keep them in a dependent state and destroy! the bottom-rung jobs that
would lift them out of poverty. Who is the real victim anyway - the guy
who won't work, or the guy with a menial job whose taxes support the
drone?
No, we must look elsewhere for the gnarled roots of Jewish
liberalism.
Above all, Jews are believers. In fact, they are the original
believers. In a world of idols, fertility rites and infant sacrifice - a
world where the strong took what they wanted - the Jews came with their
belief in an invisible, universal God who demands righteousness and
holiness (sacrifices of the heart).
More than any other people, Jews must believe in something. When
that something isn't Torah, it's something else - scientific
determinism, socialism, evolutionism, animal rights, global warming,
transcendental meditation or real-estate i! nvestment trusts. Of these,
liberalism is the most satisfying and most closely resembles traditional
religion.
Like Judaism and Christianity, liberalism offers a vision of
salvation (the secular liberal state) and damnation (an eternity of
being forced to watch FOX News).
It has its roster of saints and sinners. The former include
feminists, environmentalists, gay-marriage activists, the ACLU, NOW,
Amnesty International and Ted Kennedy. Amongst the latter are gun
owners, those who drive SUVs, families with more than four children, oil
companies, advocates of intelligent design and Sarah Palin.
Each has its rituals. For the left, it's recycling,
multiculturalism, sex education, Harvey Milk Day, a woman's "right to
choose," and an activist judiciary. Liberalism even has its sacred
writings - among them "The Population Bomb," "The Earth In Balance,&!
#8221; "The Feminine Mystique," "Dreams of My Father," and the editorial
pages of The New York Times.
There is a direct correlation between a lack of involvement with
traditional religion and membership in the Church of Liberalism. Voting
in the 2000 presidential election precisely paralleled church
attendance.
Those who went to church more than once a week voted for Bush
over Gore by 68% to 32%. Voters who went weekly favored W. by 58% to
42%. Gore captured the occasional churchgoers (59% to 41%). Seldom went
to church voted Democratic by 61% to 39%, and the
I-don't-believe-in-superstitious-mumbo-jumbo backed Gore by 65% to 35%.
Church attendance/religious involvement is a greater indicator
of voting patterns than income, education, race or employment.
! Jews, who are more secular than any other segment o f the
American people, fit this pattern perfectly. According to the Pew Forum
on Religion and Public Life, 39% of Americans attend religious services
weekly, while 56% say religion plays a "very important" role in their
lives. For Jews, those figures are 16% and 31% respectively.
How the Jews became so secular is another story. Depending on
the country and era, European Jews were circumscribed socially,
segregated, limited professionally, stigmatized, attacked, plundered and
murdered en mass.
Leaving their rabbis and great teachers behind in Europe for the
most part, many who came here during the great wave of Jewish
immigration (1880-1920) were desperately eager to assimilate and take
advantage of American openness and opportunity. There are stories of
Jewish men throwing their tfillin (phylacteries) overboard as their ship
approached these shores.
! ; The exception to Jewish secularism is Orthodox Jews, who
attend synagogue religiously and generally vote Republican. Among the
Orthodox, affinity for Republicans rises from modern Orthodox to very
Orthodox to Hasidic. The latter vote like life-members of the NRA.
Of an American Jewish population of 5.3 million, only 10% are
Orthodox. That's changing. Among Jews under 21, 20% are Orthodox.
American Jews generally have a well-below replacement birth rate
-1.86 children per woman. They not only embrace liberalism, they
practice it - in terms of late marriage, no marriage and a desire for
small families. In consequence, they are becoming an endangered species.
The Jews who do have large families are overwhelmingly Orthodox.
Go to the Crown Heights or Boro Park sections of B! rooklyn and you'll
see Jewish mothers with 4 or 5 children in to w, and a few more at home.
(The birth rate for Orthodox Jews ranges from 3.3 for the modern
Orthodox to 7.9 for Hasidic Jews.) Go to New York's Upper East Side,
and, instead of pushing strollers, you'll see Jewish women cuddling
careers in law or investment banking, with a "life-long partner" at
home.
The problem of Jewish liberalism will correct itself, as the
Orthodox become a greater portion of the Jewish population and secular
Jews go the way of the dodo bird, which, come to think of it, were
non-kosher - like Jewish liberals.
Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a
political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website,
DonFeder.com.
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