{"id":79758,"date":"2015-11-20T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79758"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:39:06","slug":"ten-jewish-groups-urge-congress-to-allow-syrian-refugees-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79758","title":{"rendered":"Ten Jewish groups urge Congress to allow Syrian refugees into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish\/news\/1.686976?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">JTA<\/a>: While Congress members consider not admitting Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, Jewish groups argue that &#8216;turning our back on refugees would be to betray our nation\u2019s core values.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ten Jewish groups have sent a letter to Congress members on Tuesday urging them not to roll back plans to accept Syrian refugees into the United States.<br \/>\n\u201cTo turn our back on refugees would be to betray our nation\u2019s core values,\u201d said the letter, as Congress began considering measures that would put a stop to the Obama administration\u2019s plans to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year.<br \/>\n\u201cIt would send a demoralizing and dangerous message to the world that the United States makes judgments about people based on the country they come from and their religion.\u201d<br \/>\nAmong the Jewish groups signing are the Union for Reform Judaism, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee.<\/p>\n<p>COMMENTS AT HAARETZ:<\/p>\n<p>* And how many refugees is Israel taking in, you know to show how good their relationship is with Syria?<\/p>\n<p>* Who exactly appointed these groups as representatives of the Jewish people? Being far wealthier and often segregated from most Americans they don&#8217;t face the problems mass immigration of all kinds imposes on the general public. Let these Ten groups be legally and financially liable for the Muslims they don&#8217;t live with. If they commit crimes, terrorism, end up on welfare, etc. make these groups liable for the full costs.<\/p>\n<p>* How noble of my fellow Reform Jews to insist that&#8230;..<br \/>\nthe US open the flood gates to Islamic Syrian refugees and not demand that Israel and the Persian Gulf oil states absorb the lion&#8217;s share of these wretches. Not in my name they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JTA: While Congress members consider not admitting Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, Jewish groups argue that &#8216;turning our back on refugees would be to betray our nation\u2019s core values.\u2019 Ten Jewish groups have sent a letter to Congress members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79758\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,29,29639],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-jews","category-syria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79760,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758\/revisions\/79760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}