The Jewish Voice
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
SPECIAL FEATURES
Continued from page 28 file amicus curae briefs in the United States Supreme Court supporting religious positions taken by groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor. This matters for American conservatives of all religions, ethnicities, races, and nationalities because, with non-Orthodox Jews reflecting the surrounding American culture of delaying marriage (if they marry at all) until very late into their mid- and later thirties, then having no children or perhaps merely one, most typically marrying non-Jews, and not rearing that child with Torah values, the only Jewish demographic who are growing in the United States are Orthodox Jews. We marry earlier, have more children than our replacement rate, and imbue our children with our Torah values. As a result, the groundbreaking Pew survey of American Jews found four years ago that, in a few short decades, Orthodox Jews will comprise the majority of Jews in New York. Beyond even that,“There is a trend afoot, and in the next big population survey like this, we will see the beginning of a switch, whereby Orthodox Jews will eventually likely be the majority of American Jews,” according to Prof. Sarah Bunin Benor of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, a non-Orthodox seminary. And this is why it is so painful today for contemporary American Orthodox Jews to read daily media reports that typically ig-
“There is a trend afoot, and in the next big population survey like this, we will see the beginning of a switch, whereby Orthodox Jews will eventually likely be the majority of American Jews,” according to Prof. Sarah Bunin Benor of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, a non-Orthodox seminary.
nore us, in an attempt to paint almost all Jews as liberal. We Orthodox Jews – the ones who wear yarmulkas, who are at the core of the kosher-food industry that attracts more millions of non-Jewish consumers than we comprise because they trust rabbinic food oversight more than they do the Government, the ones you perhaps see walking to synagogue on Saturday morning or greeting you helpfully at the Western Wall in Jerusalem when you visit – are excluded from media coverage. As easy as we are to spot, the media do all they can to keep us invisible. Thus, the media will not invite our statements nor quote us when we send them our press releases – except if we say something to advance their liberal agenda. Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama named Jews to the Supreme
Court, carefully selecting doctrinnaire Jewish liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elana Kagan, and Stephen Breyer. By selectively highlighting Jewish liberals for every vehicle, Democrats cruelly promote a stereotype that ignores Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish conservatives. Just as Democrats hounded the Hon. Clarence Thomas when he, a proud African-American, was nominated for the Supreme Court – because Blacks like Dr. Ben Carson, Herman Cain, Col. Allen West, Larry Elder, Michael Steele, Stacey Dash, and Justice Thomas are not allowed to be conservatives and Republicans – so it is that they have shut out Orthodox Jewish conservatives, barring us and our national organizations and spokespersons from the table and eliminating us from public discourse.
In New York City, the Orthodox Jewish birthright is significantly increasing. It is expected that in the next few decades, Orthodox Jews will become the majority of Jews living in New York and its suburbs
Writes Rabbi Fischer: “Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama named Jews to the Supreme Court, carefully selecting doctrinnaire Jewish liberals like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elana Kagan, and Stephen Breyer. By selectively highlighting Jewish liberals for every vehicle, Democrats cruelly promote a stereotype that ignores Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish conservatives.”
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rabbis – announce that they will not participate in a phone call with the President of the United States, the media splash the news. But why is “Dog Bites Man” news? These are the same Democrat liberal rabbis who fell over themselves to hail Obama, even as Obama allowed the United Nations to proclaim that Jews have no historical bond to any part of Jerusalem, even as Obama brushed off an anti-Jewish Radical Islamist terror attack at a kosher grocery in France as a case of “random violence,” even as Obama proceeded with the Iran deal. The bigger news story that the media, except for Arutz Sheva, fail to report is that the one-thousand members of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America did not join in the boycott announcement. Nor did the Agudath Israel of America. Nor did the rabbinical body of the 140-synagogue National Council of Young Israel. Nor did the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, comprised of some 1,000 affiliated synagogues. Nor did the 200-plus rabbis of the Coalition for Jewish Values. The media blacked out the news that the majority of all seminary-ordained rabbis in the United States are Orthodox and that they gladly would participate in a phone call with the President of the United States. In the same way, several Jewish organizations that historically were associated with protecting Jewish rights in the past
Our organizations never get Thus, for example, when an agquoted. Our public affairs pol- glomeration of the most liberal icy positions never get reported. left rabbis – the non-Orthodox See The Pain of the Contemporary , page 38