{"id":109776,"date":"2016-11-17T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109776"},"modified":"2016-11-17T11:23:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:23:13","slug":"left-wing-jews-are-embarrassing-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109776","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Jews Are Embarrassing Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Jews and their clergy at various synagogues around America were gathering to sit shiva \u2014 the Hebrew and Jewish term for the seven-day period of grieving that Jews engage in after the loss of an immediate relative \u2014 because Donald Trump was elected president.
\nConsider for a moment how childish and narcissistic this is, using the sacred ritual reserved for the death of one\u2019s child or parent as a way to express disappointment over a presidential election.
\nAnd of course, there were the irresponsible, over-the-top outbursts by Jewish columnists and academics. Take Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank, who devoted his column after the election to writing an open letter to his 12-year-old daughter.
\n\u201cAs I watched the returns at Donald Trump\u2019s celebration here Tuesday night,\u201d Milbank began, \u201cthe hardest part was trying to reassure my seventh-grade daughter at home, via phone and text, that she would be okay.
\n\u201cShe had expected to be celebrating the election of the first female president, but instead, this man she had been reading and hearing horrible things about had won.\u201d
\nThe man\u2019s 12-year-old daughter \u201cfeared her own world could come apart\u201d because of the election result. He reassured her, however, that her world would be fine, especially since she would be receiving so much love at her upcoming bat mitzvah.
\nMilbank\u2019s daughter\u2019s trauma was more than matched by the reaction of a Jewish adult, Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine. On Nov. 8, he tweeted, \u201cThis is the worst thing that has happened in my life.\u201d
\nChait was 31 years old on 9\/11.
\nA response to his tweet by a woman named Bethany S. Mandel pretty well summarized the maturity level of Chait\u2019s comment. She said: \u201cI took my mom off life support at 16 & dad hanged himself 3 yrs later. I\u2019m sorry this election was so hard for you.\u201d
\nI am sure Ms. Mandel would join me in paying Mr. Chait a shiva call.
\nSpeaking of 9\/11, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said on Bill Maher\u2019s show that Trump\u2019s victory is \u201ca moral 9\/11.\u201d He suggested that Trump becoming president might be worse than 9\/11, for 9\/11 happened to us, but \u201cwe did this to ourselves.\u201d
\nPaul Krugman, Friedman\u2019s colleague at The New York Times, wrote that he now realizes that he \u201ctruly didn\u2019t understand the country we live in.\u201d Never have truer words been written. It\u2019s tough to understand those for whom you only have contempt.
\nAdd similar comments made during the election by other Jewish leftists in the media and academia, and you get the picture.
\nHow are we to understand this?
\nHere\u2019s one explanation: When Jews abandoned Judaism, many of them did not abandon Judaism\u2019s messianic impulse. From Karl Marx \u2014 the grandson of two Orthodox rabbis \u2014 and onwards, they simply secularized it and created secular substitutes, such as Marxism, humanism, socialism, feminism and environmentalism.
\nIf left-wing Jews want to sit shiva, they should do so for their religion, which, like much of Protestant Christianity and Roman Catholicism, has been so deeply and negatively influenced by leftism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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