I like and appreciate this piece because it discusses themes I have posted about for years on this thread. He even uses the adjecctive that I use. Liberal (Dennis likes Left wing better though he admits they are now similar) are NARCISSITIC. They absoluetely do think they are better then us because of their thinking. They are the ones closer to the truth and justce (and unlike the opening dialogue in the old Superman TV serail - ***NOT the American Way***) - but rather the concept of the single world communist or perhaps socailist way. How many times do we see liberal Jews with their snarky, cynical sarcastic remarks and grins when someone else speaking disagrees with them . Folks this is delusional narcissm.
Prager also states quite accurately then Jews sitting Shiva for the election of Trump (
) could be the best example yet of the concept the for liberal Jews their religion is not Judaism. It is Leftism.
It could well be that Dennis theory that this has its' roots in Marxism from the 1800's. It may have been understandable then that Jews would take to Communism since in Tsarist Russia Jews may have been outcasts and a one author who I do not recall now suggested, "where else would Jews turn to if not Communism?" (Democracy did not, of course, exist then in Russia). However, this does not completely explain today's American Jews who have a viable alternative in American Democracy and quite literally have thrived in it.
Something has kept them in the Democrat Party which itself has become a party not within American ideals but a party that wants to replace American ideals with a new world order.
I would also add that the Jewish holocaust brought about by Nazi Germany has very much changed Jewish thought.
Take today their constant claims that Trump is Hitler. Republicans are eqatable to the Nazi Party. Like I have emphasized before that Republicans are held to more dangerous and evil then any other group in the world today. There is a lot more about this but too deep for my time to try to philosophically explore more.
But after my ruminations about the Dennis prager's piece , here it is. And in my opinion Bill Kristol who is conservative is not a "renegade" Jew. But I have no qualms saying that the liberal or leftist Jews often are:
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Dennis Prager 11/15/16
Left-Wing Jews Are Embarrassing Judaism
When you sit shiva over the election of a president, you’ve made a religion of politics. A highly respected American rabbi, Yitz Greenberg, used to tell American Jewish audiences, whether Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, “I don’t care what denomination you’re a member of, as long as you’re ashamed of it.”
I have adopted that phrase and apply it to religions generally. One could just as easily say to Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims: “I don’t care what religion you identify with, as long as you’re ashamed of it.” Meaning, of course, ashamed of what many of its members have done to it.
Just think of what has happened to much of mainstream Protestantism; to much of Catholicism, including, sadly, the current pope; and most especially to the Islamic world.
Given the subject of this column — the destructive influence of leftism on Jews and Judaism — it is relevant to mention some of my Jewish involvement. Among other things, I taught Jewish history and religion at Brooklyn College, was the spokesman for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, have written two books and hundreds of essays and columns on Jews and Judaism, received the American Jewish Press Association Award for Excellence in Jewish Commentary, have brought many thousands of Jews to Judaism, and have lectured to more Jewish groups in the past 40 years than almost any living Jew.
So, I say this with only sadness: Many American Jews on the left, including rabbis and lay leaders, are embarrassing Jews and Judaism. I say this to ring an alarm in Jewish life and to tell non-Jewish America that these people represent leftism, not Judaism. Furthermore, I am talking only about leftist, not liberal, Jews. Unfortunately, however, both within and outside of Judaism, liberalism has become synonymous with leftism.
This past week the embarrassing behavior of left-wing Jews reached a new level.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Jews and their clergy at various synagogues around America were gathering to “sit shiva” — the Hebrew and Jewish term for the seven-day period of grieving that Jews engage in after the loss of an immediate relative — because Donald Trump was elected president.
Consider for a moment how childish and narcissistic this is: using the sacred ritual reserved for the death of one’s child or parent as a way to express disappointment over a presidential election.
And, 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 twelve-year-old daughter.
“As I watched the returns at Donald Trump’s celebration here Tuesday night,” Milbank began, “the hardest part was trying to reassure my seventh-grade daughter at home, via phone and text, that she would be okay.
“She 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, and she feared her own world could come apart.”
The man’s twelve-year-old daughter “feared her own world could come apart” 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.
Milbank’s daughter’s trauma was more than matched by the reaction of a Jewish adult, Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine. On November 12, he tweeted “This is the worst thing that has happened in my life.” Chait was 31 years old on 9/11.
A response to his tweet by a woman named Bethany S. Mandel pretty well summarized the maturity level of Chait’s comment: “I took my mom off life support at 16 & dad hanged himself 3 yrs later. I’m sorry this election was so hard for you.”
I am sure Ms. Mandel would join me in paying Mr. Chait a shiva call.
Speaking of 9/11, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said on Bill Maher’s show that Trump’s victory was “a moral 9/11.” He suggested that Trump’s becoming president might be worse: 9/11 happened to us, but we “did this [elect Trump] to ourselves.”
And his colleague at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, wrote that he now realizes that he “truly didn’t understand the country we live in.”
Never have truer words been written. It’s tough to understand those for whom you only have contempt. When Jews abandoned Judaism, many of them did not abandon Judaism’s messianic impulse.
Add similar comments made during the election by other Jewish leftists in the media and academia and you get the picture.
How are we to understand this? Here’s one explanation:
When Jews abandoned Judaism, many of them did not abandon Judaism’s messianic impulse. Beginning with Karl Marx, the grandson of two Orthodox rabbis, they simply secularized it and created secular substitutes such as Marxism, humanism, socialism, feminism, and environmentalism.
If 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. — Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, was published by Regnery. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com. © 2016 Creators.com
Read more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442198/left-wing-jews-embarrassing-judaism-making-politics-their-religion
