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24 May 2010

Perhaps Cognitive Dissonance

...between the stated and the actual
.......between the negative and the positive
..........between the erev rav and authentic Jews



Are the Leftists co-opting Zionism's
raison d’etre?
The Failing American Jewish identity:

In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish community that I have ever seen. The philanthropists wanted to know what Jewish students thought about Israel.

"LUNTZ FOUND THAT THEY MOSTLY DID NOT"


“[I]n Israel today, this humane, universalistic Zionism does not wield power”
You can read this lengthly expose at NY Books.


DO ISRAELI LEADERS NEED A NEW IDENTITY?
To Better Reflect its People:

“In 2009, a poll by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 53 percent of Jewish Israelis (and 77 percent of recent immigrants from the former USSR) support encouraging Arabs to leave the country”

“When Israeli high schools held mock elections last year, Lieberman won”

“March, a poll found that 56 percent of Jewish Israeli high school students—and more than 80 percent of religious Jewish high school students—would deny Israeli Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset”

“If American Jewish groups claim that Israel’s overseas human rights critics are motivated by anti- Israeli, if not anti-Semitic, bias, what does that say about Israel’s domestic human rights critics?”

“In 2002, America’s major Jewish organizations sponsored a large Israel solidarity rally on the Washington Mall. Up and down the east coast, yeshivas shut down for the day, swelling the estimated Orthodox share of the crowd to close to 70 percent.”

We just came from Har Sinai

We stood under a Chuppa

We were wed to HKB”H

We were given the Torah

With is Laws and Customs

and

Hashem gave us

His Law & Customs

Ten Commandments

To become a Nation of Holy People

Forty days prior

to a birth

It is decreed that plony marries plony

It is so decreed

There will be no Divorce

from Hashem

and His Laws & Statutes

We are Forever

Married


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