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US Jewry and Israel: A growing identity crisis
Yossi Shain
Published: 23.06.18, 23:33
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1. American Jews
DSM ,   USA   (06.24.18)
The majority of non orthodox American Jews are liberal,progressive Democrats and as such they hate President Trump, but loved Obama because by voting for a black man it reaffirmed their liberal status, this despite that he did nothing for American Jews and all he could do against Israel. Liberal American Jews should be called Jews In name only (JINO's ) as they are Democrats, socialists,communists first and then Jews.
2. Libs: The rumors of our death have been often exaggerated.
rt   (06.24.18)
We need our scholars to dig out the secret history of the Russian Active Measures which have showered all of us with dangerous blows.

Further we need a newly mounted defense to diffuse those real and hidden trolls, while other subjects can be left on the back burners.
3. Potatos
GF ,   Jerusalem   (06.24.18)
Children in Israel have a custom of growing a potato pit in water. Eventually the potato will produce flowers and seeds. If you take the seeds and put them into water nothing happens. You need to plant the seeds in soil to produce new potatos.

The water is Conservative-Reform-Liberal-Left Zionism, or whatever you wish to call it. The water will grow a potato for ONE generation. The only way to produce a 2nd generation potato is to plant the seeds in the soil of Torah.

NO Liberal Jew alive today had a Great-grandfather who did not wear Tfillin and keep Shabbos.
4. German Jews had had problems with their affiliation too
ab   (06.24.18)
5. Self-explanatory: you move away from "pure' Judaism, you
(06.24.18)
become susceptible to anti-Israel influences, thus alienating yourself altogether from our narrative.
Good luck in that endeavor, but please don't take us down with you.
6. Intermarriage and assimilation
Michael Cohen ,   Jerusalem   (06.24.18)
of non-Orthodox secular Jews in the US is very difficult to stop. What works is the traditional Jewish lifestyle: shabbat, kashrut, the laws of family purity, etc. We have to send a message to anti-Torah Reform movement that we hold them responsible for this unfolding demographic disaster by refusing recognize their religion as Judaism.
7. Reform and Conservaative Jews are only nominally Jewish
Haim Bar-Lev ,   Tel Aviv   (06.24.18)
have really nothing to do with Judaism
8. In fact,Pal Muslims r closer to Judaism than ref & cons Jews
Emmanuel Nahshon ,   Jerusalem   (06.24.18)
9. Guilt Ridden Assimilated US Jews Power Play
$WhereSunDontShine ,   Jerusalem   (06.24.18)
Self appointed super wealthy but poor
Spiritually US “Jews” many if not most
Married to non Jewish women made
“Jewish” overnight in quickie pseudo
Jewish movements now celebrating
Their 200 years of steady decline into
Total assimilation now in the process
Of closing up shop now demand we
Follow them into oblivion.A sure case
Of guilt and ego bullying and in a state
Of complete panic as they see their
Children and grandchildren “evaporate “
As Jews . Israel must not let these
Jewish Ignoramases throw their $$$
Threats around in a tantrum. Israel
And the Jewish People
Will survive very nicely without them
The reverse cannot be said for them !
10. Global Jews pro-Israel only US majority hostile to values
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11. Majority of "self appointed" Jewish leaders Jewishlyignorant
US-JewishArrogance ,   Jerusalem Israel   (06.26.18)
the average 12 year old Israeli is more knowledgeable of Jewish
Civilization than the average so called self appointed
US Jewish "leadership" with more money than brains in many
cases. To alleviate and legitimate their Jewish ignorance
they throw money at Israel with threats that if they don't
become as they and their assimilated families they will
in effect "punish " Israel by withholding donations. Those
days are over unlike their forefathers who donated and
help build the Jewish Homeland without strings attached
Thankfully Israel can now stand on its own feet even
the 3 billion from America is really not needed any longer
and in fact all but 500 million of it is spent in the US on
joint defense projects. Tragically the US Jewish Community
is in tatters and heading for a nose dive. Various Orthodox
communities are picking up the pieces so let the
"Machers" in the US throw their little tantrums hopefully
they will wake up before the last Jew there" puts the lights out"..
Boston an example the community there just poured $500,000
into restoring the last Orthodox Shul in Boston as a museum
I suggest they put in the museum there holograms of Boston
Jews as soon they will be also "museum pieces"
12. Liberal U.S. Jews disappearing like dodo birds. Ignore them
Chaim ,   Israel   (06.27.18)
Demographic studies show liberal U.S. Jews are disappearing like dodo birds. They also have the intelligence and survival instincts of dodo birds.
13. historically US Jews as with Holocaust betray brethren
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14. The Most Ridiculous Comments...
solomon ,   Bklyn   (06.29.18)
I read drivel that shows ignorance of the US Jewish community. It is as mixed as the Israel Jewish community. Not all Jews go to the synagogue even on Yom Kippur, in both countries. Specific statements are made about US Jewry that are based on exaggerated generalities. The "historically" in a post below is blatently false. Many Americans, both Jewish and not Jewish, came to fight in Israel's Independence War. Ammunition and equipment were bought with money from American Jews. There is a large part of the American electorate that are Jews supporting Israel, contacting their congressmen in this regard. Much of what I read here is the fantasy of those who deal in generalities without bothering to study facts.
15. Jewish antisemitism
Bertram ,   London, UK.   (06.29.18)
How depressing to read posts deprecating non-orthodox Jews by those claiming to be Jewish. Who needs Nazis?
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