Illinois’ Ninth District: For Jews, a Choice Between AIPAC and J Street
For the Jewish community, the election of Barack Obama has presented a major dilemma. The candidate they voted for is not the president they got, especially when it comes to Israel. Even if you could conjure up the ghost of John Foster Dulles, you could not find an administration more hostile to the Jewish state and more unconcerned about the anti-Semitic fallout from pursuing policies based on antipathy to Israel.
Obama’s antagonism toward Israel has been eloquently addressed by such leading Democratic figures as former New York City Mayor Ed Koch and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz. Recently, actor Jon Voigt, in an open letter to Obama, poignantly took him to task for his hostility toward both Israel and Jews.
Jews have been jumping off the Obama ship in droves, but leaving Obama and voting Republican are two different things. In a fashion reminiscent of James Baker’s offensive quip, “F*** the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway,” it is possible to think of Obama saying, “F*** the Jews, they’ll vote for us no matter what.”
Will they? The most palpable test of whether Jews are willing to move into the Republican camp can be found in the Illinois’ Ninth Congressional District.
Running up from Chicago into the very trendy suburbs of Evanston and Wilmette, the Ninth then heads west through Skokie all the way to Des Plaines. This is a very affluent district with a substantial Jewish, progressive population.
Jan Schakowsky, the incumbent, is a sycophantic Obama Democrat and proud progressive. Her strangely shaped district is so Democratic that the only Republicans one is likely to encounter are tourists. She always wins big.
Her positions on Israel are right out of the J Street playbook and Evanston’s ultra-progressive Beth Emet Synagogue, which has become J Street’s citadel on the North Shore. Schakowsky is a member. Schakowsky and much of the Beth Emet crowd can best be described as “anti-Zionist Zionists.” The difference between the thinking at Beth Emet and that of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement is that the ISM knows its policies will result in Israel’s destruction. The Beth Emet crowd engages in the delusion that they support Israel.
Thanks for the illumination of Schakowsky’s anti-Israel politics. She is a stunning piece of work. One hears her on local radio programs uttering gasp-inducing lies and distortions for which she is rarely called to task.
The dirty little secret is that she and her husband, convicted felon (wire fraud, bank fraud) Robert Creamer, have built a political machine worthy of the sordid reputation of the worst of Chicago pols-the very thing she claimed to be fighting when she first ran for office.
Perhaps the American Jews need another shoa to come to their senses – this time, in the U.S. It is flabbergasting to see again and again how this innate and utterly misconceived, sense of messianism (i.e., progress) goes hand in hand with a death wish.
It is very counterproductive for Jews to support anti-Israeli, anti-American politicians, but this comment is not helpful. Another Shoah is not something you wish on someone, however self-destructive their politics. With enemies like this, I guess Schakowsky doesn’t need any more friends!
American Jews hate Christians in America more than they fear Mohammedans in the Middle East. Bet the ranch on the Leftie.
That is a nonsense generalization Jacobite.
They’re not just anti Israel, folks.. they are pro-communist/leftist/totalitarian style government, in favor of overthrowing this system of ours and replacing it wholesale.. and in case history has not been properly taught to American Jewish voters, it is totalitarian leftist governments who always wind up trying to exterminate or exile or ruin Jews in their own countries… and this cultural phenomenon was a primary driver of the urgency of the foundation of Israel in the first place.. if not for Russian Jews leaving the Pale, if not for Polish Jews fleeing Hitler, Israel might have taken longer to get started, or might not have gotten started at all.
Schakowski and Creamer are insiders to the Obama leftist dream of utopia. They’re on his team. Forget Chicago, they’re in for the long haul. They dream of a full scale worldwide totalitarian government built on the mass redistribution of American wealth (except theirs, of course. Recall that Creamer went to jail for bank fraud, stole millions, but was unrepentant because the lucre was to be used for the ’cause’.)
These are not just liars and frauds and lefties, they are FRIGHTENING people, the kind who dream of sending conservatives to gulags.
NOT KIDDING HERE.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”
Winston Churchill
I think that you have described the motivation of the “progressive” Jews who support Obama as accurately as anyone I have seen. Many people are perplexed when they try to understand why any Jewish person would support policies intended to lead to the total destruction of the Jewish State and the annihilation of its people.
Marx was Jewish. His religion had nothing to do with his politics, except perhaps self-hatred. (I am no psychiatrist so I intend no analysis of the psyche of Marx, but I have heard that possibility expressed many times.) The desire for totalitarian rule is about power and is certainly not based in rational or reasonable thought.
I fear for Israel. The continued existence of that state may rest on the results of the November elections. It is ironic that the same thing can be said of the United States. I sincerely believe that Obama has as much antipathy for America as he has for Israel.The Democratic Party majority in Congress must be ended in order to derail the agenda of Barack Obama and the radical leftists who currently control their Party.
I think the roots of Jewish liberalism/progressivism go back to actual oppression experienced in tsarist Russia, and further back in the exclusionary policies of Christian Europe from earliest times through the middle ages. Sadly, late 19th and early 20th century America was not exactly friendly to Jews though we had much more opportunity and freedom here. As underdogs and victims, Jews embraced anything and anyone who they felt would help them break the bonds of oppression and achieve equal status in an egalitarian society, which is also why they were a major force in creating the NAACP (ironic considering the attitudes of Wright, Sharpton, Jackson et al).
By the 50′s and 60′s, the altruism of what was classical liberalism was co-opted by Marxist/communist revolutionary dogma and that was that. The self hating Jew, as embodied in Noam Chomskly, is often the loudest, most virulent critic of Israel because he/she has to establish his “liberal” bona fides (the meme is Israel is an illegitimate apartheid state oppressing Palestinians at the behest of imperialist America). Liberal Jews can neither see nor accept what has happened to the movements that they had helped create. Ironically, their true champions are the conservatives and tea partiers. I mean, as a New Yorker, how can ANY Jew embrace the likes of Chuck Schumer and Gerald Nadler?
Anyway, that’s my very short incomplete take on it. Sad.
A great example of what I was describing would by how Albert Shanker, the head of the UFT in New York, was ousted as the leader of a legitimate union by leftist America-haters, Jew-haters and the Black Panthers – a major reason why Johnny can’t read.
I agree with your assessment, dave in dallas; the congresswoman and her felonious husband need to be rejected — utterly, completely and loudly booed off the stage – by the good people of Illinois’ ninth.
Joel Pollak, on the other hand, merits their support. He’s not afraid to stand up to the Left and expose them for what they are: dismantlers of our Founding liberties. It’s sad — and disturbing — that so many in the Jewish community turn their back on the transcendent moral order explicated in Judaism and embrace instead a “progressive” ethos that is antithetical and inimical to it. And all to what end? That they can join the God-haters? the God-deniers? How silly if it weren’t so tragic. When there is no objective truth, anything goes — the will to power prevails, and no one is safe from its corrupting and evil influence and actions. No one.
” The Beth Emet crowd engages in the delusion that they support Israel.” I never could quite see how “loyal” members of the Jewish community could take positions that seemed to me to be self-destructive if not suicidal – strange convoluted thinking that requires a take on reality that borders on the delusional: the Beth Emet J Street syndrome?
I believe “Beth Emet” translates as “House of Truth.”
Wow.
And the truth will set us free.
Jan, the anti Israel hater was the ‘gal pal’ (AKA bed partner, she swings both ways) of an Arab woman, and surely this has further colored her animus.
There is NO doubt she has to be defeated. NO doubt.Besides, her hubby wrote the manifesto for ObamaCare while in prison on fraud charges.
Case closed.
Richard, the Beth Emet J Street Syndrome is a good one, or, more aptly, The Oslo Syndrome:Delusions of a People Under Siege. Dr Kenneth Levin, a Harvard psychiatrist and a Princeton historian (a brilliant man DESPITE his Ivy pedigrees)describes the Jewish Delusional Syndrome to a tee.
Read it and weep.
Adina. The difference is that Beth Emet people don’t feel directly threatened. At best they are like Clinton (feel your pain). Here is Levin:
“Similarly, within populations under chronic siege – whether minorities marginalized, demeaned and attacked by surrounding societies or small nations besieged by their neighbors – some will invariably seek either to avert their gaze from the severity of the threat or rationalize the threat and blame themselves or others within their community for the danger. Their doing so reflects wishful thinking that if only they would reform sufficiently the danger would be alleviated.
The statement:
“Running up from Chicago into the VERY TRENDY suburbs of Evanston and Wilmette, the Ninth then heads west through Skokie all the way to Des Plaines. This is a VERY AFFLUENT district with a substantial Jewish, PROGRESSIVE population”.
I have capitalized those terms that will doom the Jews. If, after 5,000 years of collective memory and history, the Jews of the above forementioned communities STILL vote for an anti-semite then there is not a whole heck of a lot we concerned and worried Jews in Israel can expect from our bretheren in America. Anyway you put a spin on it, J-Street is just another modern shroud for very concerned, justice-oriented (to the point of collective suicide) very assimilated, very modified group of appeasing Jews. This is not new, this is not original and this will not last. They may exert increasing power in the short term but they are on the path to extinction and as they exit the stage, they will make a lot of noise, a lot of fuss but in the end, the J-Street people will turn into Parve-mush because that is the substance from which they are made.
I heard Alan Dershowitz, a Democrat and an Obama supporter, give his enthusiastic endorsement for Pollak. Dershowitz knows him personally from Harvard. I hope Dershowitz will publicly and energetically campaign for Pollak, who has an uphill battle.
When is the brilliant lawyer Dershowitz going to realize he has a split personality disorder. You can’t be for Obama and Israel at the same time.
Absolutely great comments on Miller’s article. Someone smarter and better than myself has a core of wonderful people to begin a pro America and pro Israel movement. Take the offensive and fight fire with an acetylene torch.
For non chemists, it burns much, much hotter than most other combustibles.
Let’s talk a bit about the origins of that strange shape. From Cardiss Collin’s bowling alley to Luis Guittierez’s earmuffs and the odd footlike appendage that connected Dan Rostenkowskis’s Chicago residence to a district that now sprawled far out to the west, Chicago area Congresscritters pretty much get to choose their voters rather than the other way around.
The Ninth district has been gerrymandered to suit the needs of a Jewish incumbant ever since Sid Yates was elected to Congress in 1948. As the Chicago area’s Jewish population moved from the city to the suburbs so did the boundaries of the ninth district. In the process it left behind an arm clinging to what was left of the older enclaves along Chicago’s north lakefront. The process was continued when Yates retired and was replaced by Schakowsky in 1999 and the map was redrawn in 2001. Indeed, a divided Illinois legislature drew a Congressional map that was pretty much what Congresscritters of both parties wanted except for the seat that had to go in downstate Illinois.
If memory serves, the only close race in this district since the 1960s when Yates took a brief hiatus from Congress to run for the US Senate was the 1998 Democrat primary. In that race the radical Schakowsky adroitly exploited her gender among her “progressive” base in the univeristy town of Evanston to beat veteran State Senator Howie Carroll and Hyatt hotel heir Jay Pritzker.
These heavily gerrymandered districts are one reason the lunatic left controls the national Democrat party. A radical core in a place like Evanston can control the primary election. Their candidate then goes on to win general election after general election in districts where “the only Republican one is likely to encounter are tourists”. As the seniority mounts up, these radicals then take control of the party apparatus in Congress.
Illinois will lose a seat beginning in 2012. If the Jewish community craves ethnic representation in the next 10 years, there needs to be both a Pollak victory in the 9th and a Bob Dold (R)victory in the neighboring North Suburban/Waukegan 10th congressional district. Otherwise – I see Schakowsky retiring after winning and Dan Seals (Dem candidate in the 10th) getting most of both the 9th and 10th district territory, with the non Jewish 10th (Waukegan) going to shore up Melissa Bean and the non Jewish 9th (Des Plaines, NW Chicago) going to Mike Quigley.
My husband and I live in a small town in South Mississippi that maintains about 50-55 Jewish families. we are and was even more so in the past, a very tight community.
The business we were in was dominated by Jews and during a personal disaster, Jews whether they know you or not offer to help. They take care of their own. I know this first hand.
Our family, both of our extended families did not vote for Obama but several of our good friends did. Why? They wanted to believe. “He can’t be worse than Bush”. “He has solutions for the poor, the government, environment, etc..” “Let’s give him a chance”. My Obama voter friend is a democrat, worked for the democratic party and chosen to represent the ST of MS at the Democratic National Convention 4 years before Obama….
She would not listen to anything I knew to be true about Obama. Ignored all information, all associates, all lies, everything.
She’s a democrat and Obama said all the right words…. and there were always reasons or excuses for his connections to crooked, lying, unpatriotic, self serving people.
What’s wrong with these people?
Great article. “This, of course, is the typical insanity of progressives cavalierly playing roulette with the lives of six and a half million people.”
Great article! Sorry to be so crass, but this is BS. The woman is filled with the exuberance of her own verbosity. Completely out of touch with the real world that surrounds her. She and people like her need always to be exposed for what they are. Full of S____
Just saying.
Great article – but also sad. I hope and pray Shakowsky will be defeated and Pollak will win. But frankly, if a voter drank the kool-ade to elect Obama, it shows their preference isn’t for sipping tea. Still, a little prayer doesn’t hurt. This Depression could change their minds at last (if they’ve got any).
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This is an excellent article, Abe – as always. I will pray that Shakowsky loses and Pollak is elected. Unfortunately, it’s been my experience in the past that the voters who drink the kool-ade for Obama aren’t the same ones who drink the tea of conservativism. Still, I can pray that they will change their minds in November. It’s just possible that this Depression will finally make the horror of leftism so awful that even well-to-do people will be forced to see its effect.
Ro 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. **
It seems to me that the Law is the conscience of the Jew while the Gentile had a conscience that, in a way took the place of the law,
** Ro 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) **
I have though on this over the years and conclude that the Jews, trying to interpret the law with the carnal mind fail to understand the intent of the law, which is spiritually discerned. Just as the teaching of Jesus was rejected they still reject the weightier matters of the law and get tangled up in Socialism which does not recognize law.
Understand, I am not condemning the Jew for there are still those who are mindful of the law. But I believe this explains why certain Jews can and do drift so far from the truth having their conscience seared that they are blind to the truth.
Whether we are Jew or Gentile we are still under this same law given by the one lawgiver and we cannot disregard that law without suffering the consequences.
Re 16. Whit350 Louisiana: The Law defines the contents of conscience. Conscience, like sex, is promiscuous. Many crimes are committed in the name of conscience. Indeed, it is the abandonment of the Law that allows for the rampant growth of conscience to include all manner of evil. Lenin,Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot all killed millions in quite good conscience. No, I am afraid that conscience is so malleable as to be easily manipulated. The Law defines the contents and limits it to prevent aberrations of memes like “The end justifies the means” or “By any means necessary.”
Im putting my money on the J-Street candidate.
Anti Euro Christianism trumps Pro Israeli Jewism.
Sometimes change is a slow and painful process. The fact that an orthodox Republican Harvard graduate is running against the J street candidate is change in itself. Even if Pollack is defeated at the polls, the wheel has started to turn. Give it enough time and the majority of those Jews will become Republican. In the mean time the best thing we can do is back Pollack in his bid.
I live in the district and vote Republican. We have had positive responses while campaigning for Joel!
what about Mark Kirk’s coattails?
if the Chicago machine is anything like the New York machine, they rely on low turnout to protect incumbents.
it is really unhelpful to label all non-Orthodox American Jews as die-hard ‘Liberal’.
lots can happen between now and November. I wish Joel Pollak good luck.
Interesting how there is no mention of Sibel Edmonds’ revelations regarding Jan Schakowsky and her Turkish connections (and female honey trap). Might this be due to the fact that giving credence to Ms. Edmonds revelations in respect to Senator Schakowsky, would possibly give credence to her allegations regarding joint brokering by agents of Turkey and Israel (with the assistance of client members of Congress) of purloined nuclear secrets? The fact she was muzzled by the Cheney-Bush regime, and ignored by our Zionist media, lends credence to the veracity of her claims. I agree Schakowsky needs to go, but so does anyone in our government who puts the interests of Turkey, Israel, or any nation, over those of America. This author makes a litmus test of support for Israel. The tribe in America has the right to wish it’s brethren well, but if Israel comes first – please move there.
Bravo, Abe Miller! Keep on kicking up your heels about J-Street and their hypocritical position on Israel. (Sure, they “love Israel,” but they see a different approach to peace.) Jan Schakowsky will do less to bring about peace and will do more to harm Israel than your article even states. So, people in the Ninth District, beware!
Joey Pollak, on the other hand, sounds like an wonderful up-and-coming young challenger to also-Harvard grad, B.O. Pollak’s politics appeal to me – Israel, the Constitution, and the USA, and via the Republican Party! All of this, and he has gumption too, as in a kind of Macabbean manner.
Let’s hope the folks in the Ninth District vote wisely!
What chance for an independent?
Kol HaKavod – great article.
Just want to remind everyone that history is filled with persons and regimes that insisted they were going to – one way or another – “solve” the “Jewish problem”. I am delighted but not surprised to note that Israel and Klal Yehuda are still here, and the haters are nothing but dust.
This awful woman, too, shall pass, and she is nothing but a passing irritation in the big picture. That said, I hope she is destroyed in the voting
Baruch HaShem!
In the Chicago area it really doesn’t matter how people vote. As the previous Mayor Daley said, “It’s not how the votes go in that counts; it’s how they come out.” There are enough cemeteries in the area to provide the Dems all the votes they need.
Actually Andrea in LA I only learned of Sibel Edmonds’s accusations after the piece went up. I think Sibel Edmonds is a courageous woman, and her story needs to be told. Regrettably, both Republicans and Democrats have an interest in shutting her up. Both are on the take. The Pollak campaign will not use Edmonds’s material because they think it is too incendiary and not substantiated. Of course, how could it be since retroactively it was classified. Since learning of the Edmonds’ material, I have suggested to campaign people that they use it in the full scope, seeing Schakowsky as a specific part of a broader picture. My own position is simply this: I don’t really care with whom Schakowsky has sex, unless that person is indeed the paid agent of a foreign power. Then for someone on the intelligence committee that is a most compromising situation that involves national security. And what is true for Turkey should be true for Israel, if the information is there. You realize of course, the information is now almost a year old. It exploded on the pages of Vanity Fair, but except for FOX, no one will touch it. It shows that when the Democrats and Republicans want to cover up malfeasance in office, bipartisanship does indeed work. Thanks for raising this issue, and please continue to pursue it.
Actually, the 9th District has a fairly substantial Republican base: about 25% in 2006 and 2008. Not much, but it’s better than the 1st (15%), 2nd (10%), 4th (12%), or 7th (15%).
I still don’t give Pollak much of a chance. The Chicago part of the 9th district includes some heavily black neighborhoods, Boys’ Town (IYKWIMAITYD), and a lot of hispanics. Evanston has a large black community. These blocks are not enough to control the district, but they are a big thumb on the scale for the Democrats, and will not be swayed by Dershowitz or concerns about Israel.
Barring a really big scandal, such as sex tapes that confirm the Sibel Edmonds story, Pollak will draw about 40% at best.
Jan is terrific and I hope she wins again. You all are quite disappointing for not one comment has explained how can Israel maintain itself BOTH as a Jewish state and a Democratic state without an eventual two state solution. Can’t happen. Which one of those two descriptives are you willing to give up? I know it isn’t the “Jewish” state. I’m with you there. But I am certain that lots of you are just fine giving up the idea of a democratic Israel by long-term forced disenfranchisement of a Palistineans which are multiplying at a far greater rate than Israel’s Jews. Do the math dimwits. A nondemocratic Israel is a place most younger non-orthodox American Jews, as Peter Beinart has so brilliantly written about recently in the NY Review of Books, are just not willing to go, especially if a two state solution will avoid that necessity.
Jan and Obama and Rahm all “get it” you turkeys. As do a majority of thinking Jews in N. America, thankfully, at least for now. Arguably more so than even Al Qaeda, Iran is the big strategic threat now to the world (thanks to Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, who nievely at best, cynically at worst, wiped out their number one enemy, Saddam Hussein, giving Iran total regional carte blanche to start flexing their inane muscles). Remember you turkeys: Iran has no lovers in the Arab Sunni world, which is far bigger than the Shiite world. Iran is run by Shiites and non-Arab Persians, and they “look down” on Arabs. But Iran uses Israel and the Palistineans conflict to appeal to the common (Sunni) man in the streets of Cairo, Riyadh, Damascus, and Islamabad to name but a few, and as such to wield nontrivial power in those countries too – regardless of what Mubarkek and Faisal think of them. Solve that problem, and Iran is relegated to a back bench status overnight. Attack them militarily, and watch terrorism multiply 100X. Not just by Iran, but also by (Sunni) Al Qaeda, who although it hates Iran, would not hesitate to use such an attack as a recruiting basis. Tzipi gets it. I hope she comes to power in Israel before too many moons. Most of you will no doubt be dismayed as you nievely would see her as an appeaser.
Ronny: Your history needs work. Name one Arab leader that has ever accepted a two-state solution if it meant the existence of Israel. Arafat was offered that at Camp David. Abbas was offered that at Taba. Guess what? They said, “No.” It is the height of liberal arrogance to put in the mouths of the Palestinians what they will not say. No one I know of in the Jewish community is against a two state solution. J Street did not discover the two state solution. They discovered appeasement. Who speaks for the Palestinians? Abbas is serving the sixth year of a four year term. How is that for legitimacy? His principals have said to Hamas that Abbas does not recognize Israel. Arafat recognized Israel in his capacity as Chairman of the PA, not as head of Fatah. Therefore, Fatah has not changed its charter and does not recognize Israel. This is from Fatah, As for the Sunni/ Shiite split, it exists sometimes and not others. It is about power, not theology. Al Qaeda does not hate Iran. Where do you come up with that nonsense? Osama bin Ladin’s mother was a Shiite. When the Jordanian leader of Al Qaeda meet with Osama and talked about killing Shi’ia, he was thought of as an idiot. ME politics is like a Minuet, with people coming together and then changing partners. Much of he academic talk is just nonsense. Schakowsky is playing for power. J Street carves out positions that it does not have to live under. Just as the idiot Obama superseded the positions of the PA and wrecked the early negotiations. Can Abbas be less stringent than the American president? J Street has never asked for a meaningful concession from the Palestinians. Israel cannot return to the 67 borders, even Saul Bellow notes that in Jerusalem and Back, written some forty years ago. That doesn’t mean Israel needs to keep the West Bank. It means it needs to find peace with security. You assume positions for the rest of us that we have never carved out. So, here is a little assignment for you. Name a single strong Arab leader who has said that he accepts the two state solution without the law of return? And do you and the other J Street types believe that for the last several decades AIPAC stopped the peace process and Schakowsky, Rabbi London and their ilk can make peace happen? How so? Oh, and do you think Sibel Edmonds is telling the truth and Schakowsky compromised national security by having a lesbian relationship with a Turkish operative? And its not about lesbianism. It is about being in bed with the paid operative of another country. What do you think?
ISM policies,
At this moment in time I live in Eire(Ireland) as for some time,In May this year an alleged Muslim stabbed former British Minister Steve Timms in his public office.Let my person explain to the Americans that read this American Democracy is the only way however let me explain clearly I left U.K because of Tony Blair s Government.I recently issued litigation regarding how the British Government and the police ALTERED POLICE RECORDS on persons and have never been prosecuted because the british Government failed to do so, further Tony Blair resigned from his position because he was involved in political crimes full stop period.You will understand my observations of the British Government which are clearly backed up on internet evidence shows that muslims have flooded into Britain in the last decade illegally,not only that however there government has aided there rights to British citizenship and now they can enter into America on British passports!!! after entering the u.k illegally.Also the crackpots in the U.K who ran the last Government waved bad debts through….last night on Irish radio I heard a canadain woman some sort of economist command over half an hour on radio explaining how ireland is in a depression and compared to the American deppresion let me tell every body who reads this page there is little industry in ireland compared with Eorope so who pays for all big cars and new houses etc etc I will tell you you do the American people the banks in Ireland completely crashed here over the last 2 years the Irish are sucking up all the money they can and who pays for it American banking sytem and crackpots in the American Government and of course the Brits full stop period so next time your all working away and paying your taxes just remember Ireland and U.K are spending yopur money and filling up these countries with illegal muslims,I am not against person and religions of peace however time and time again the muslim communities in Europe harbour terrorists fulls top period all at your expense and of course those wonderfull people who we cant mention because of our own political reasons…..
It is very difficult to take an article seriously, especially one that is primarily opinion based, when one of the few factual parts is 180 degrees incorrect. The article say,
“What kind of risks would the rabbi herself take? During her first year in rabbinical school, then-Andrea Coustan was studying in Israel when the Gulf War broke out. While her classmates were standing shoulder to shoulder with Israelis and putting on gas masks in anticipation of Saddam’s missiles, Andrea Coustan returned to and remained safely in America:
‘We haven’t forgotten who stayed and who left,’ one of her classmates says.”
Apparently the classmate was either quoted out of context or didn’t feel the need to tell the truth. Andrea London not only stayed in Israel, she fought the Union of Reform Judaism to allow students who wanted to stay to remain at the Hebrew Union College.
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This partisan rant is hateful and sad. Whatever your political beliefs (or in this case…whatever your political ambitions), attempting to divide Jewish people along religious lines is sick. I am a proud member of Beth Emet and am proud to have Andrea London as my Rabbi. She is a brilliant woman who has devoted her life to scholarship,G-d and helping others. She deserves respect. Vote for whoever you want but don’t malign other Jews in the process.
i VOLUNTEERED TO LEAVE THE UK YEARS AGO THE WALL CAME DOWN IN AROUND 1998
I HIDE IN THE HILLS OF IRELAND WITH THE DEER!!!!
yeah that was me david dundale standing outside the jewish embassy in dublin
on 2/11/11 with my id card
Wow, even after Ehud Barak has said Israel has no greater friend than Obama and after Bush sent an innocent Canadian to Syria (pre civil war) for torture after 9-11.