Excellent essay. Thank you. I was reminded of my (ex) Rabbi, who still dutifully attends Thanksgiving Jewish/ Black dinners in New York city, hoping to build solidarity and common understanding using 1950s methods. He is one to push aside Ye or Sharpton as outliers, no matter what. I think a further wrinkle is that most American Jews tod…
Excellent essay. Thank you. I was reminded of my (ex) Rabbi, who still dutifully attends Thanksgiving Jewish/ Black dinners in New York city, hoping to build solidarity and common understanding using 1950s methods. He is one to push aside Ye or Sharpton as outliers, no matter what. I think a further wrinkle is that most American Jews today are no longer the "Podhoretz Jews" (a recent boss came to me on the eve of Passover asking "is this when we don't eat bread, or when we fast?"). They have become staunch believers of the Dem Party and are reliably anti-Israel, and pro any and all group grievances and microaggressions (BLM, "Stop Asian Hate!" Love is Love). I'm reminded of your essay mentioning Robert Maxwell and how post WWII many Jews thought themselves as Jewish, with strong Judaic moral tenets and obligations. Can the same be said of most American Jewry today? Is Doug Emhoff Jewish the way Podhoretz was? Zuckerberg? Merrick Garland? Admiral Levine? Jews of my parents' generation contributed to hospital wings (Zuck gets points here), and synagogues with attached day-schools. Today they contribute to Schumer's latest fundraiser. We are likely hearing the last of the howls of protest about antisemetic comments by Blacks from Jewish organizations.
I often listen to The Glenn (Lowry) Show, looking for Black intellectuals with different views, but my impression is that he's walking in the wilderness all alone. Sorry for the rambling, but I cannot pull these threads together as masterfully as you. Merry Christmas.
Excellent essay. Thank you. I was reminded of my (ex) Rabbi, who still dutifully attends Thanksgiving Jewish/ Black dinners in New York city, hoping to build solidarity and common understanding using 1950s methods. He is one to push aside Ye or Sharpton as outliers, no matter what. I think a further wrinkle is that most American Jews today are no longer the "Podhoretz Jews" (a recent boss came to me on the eve of Passover asking "is this when we don't eat bread, or when we fast?"). They have become staunch believers of the Dem Party and are reliably anti-Israel, and pro any and all group grievances and microaggressions (BLM, "Stop Asian Hate!" Love is Love). I'm reminded of your essay mentioning Robert Maxwell and how post WWII many Jews thought themselves as Jewish, with strong Judaic moral tenets and obligations. Can the same be said of most American Jewry today? Is Doug Emhoff Jewish the way Podhoretz was? Zuckerberg? Merrick Garland? Admiral Levine? Jews of my parents' generation contributed to hospital wings (Zuck gets points here), and synagogues with attached day-schools. Today they contribute to Schumer's latest fundraiser. We are likely hearing the last of the howls of protest about antisemetic comments by Blacks from Jewish organizations.
I often listen to The Glenn (Lowry) Show, looking for Black intellectuals with different views, but my impression is that he's walking in the wilderness all alone. Sorry for the rambling, but I cannot pull these threads together as masterfully as you. Merry Christmas.
Do you think they are anti-Israel, or anti-Likud?
Anti-Israel. Even if there were 2 states they would claim the Israeli state was an interloper colonizer and unnatural to the region.