Jewish Paper Includes Obama Among the Year’s…50 Most Influential Jews
- Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:05pm by
Billy Hallowell
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The Jewish Forward, a newspaper published in New York City, puts together an annual list of the 50 most influential Jewish leaders (called “The Forward 50”). This year, there’s a bizarre addition to the impressive roster — President Barack Obama.
In describing the list, editor Jane Eisner writes, “The Forward 50 is a snapshot in time, an impressionist picture of the American Jewish story during a given year.” Below, see a video during which Eisner discusses the top five names who are included in this year’s grouping:
“The Forward 50,” which includes individuals from a variety of sectors, seeks to explore Jews in all areas of society — sports, music, science — you get the idea. It’s a comprehensive list that delves into practically every facet of society.
Now, let‘s get back to Obama’s inclusion.
I know what you’re thinking: “The president isn’t Jewish! Why’s was he selected?” This same question came into my mind as soon as I saw his name at the tail end (he’s #51) of the list. In a Jewish Forward reporters’ roundtable earlier this morning, Eisner discussed the reasoning behind the president’s presence on the list.
“We do have a tradition where we will occasionally add a non-Jew,” Eisner explained. For example, last year, Chelsea Clinton was selected after her wedding sparked discussion about people of differing faiths marrying (Clinton’s husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is Jewish).
When discussing Obama’s selection, Eisner said, “I don’t even remember who came up with the name.” She was also careful to say that Obama’s inclusion “…is hardly an endorsement or an indictment of our president.”
On the page that describes the reasoning for Obama’s selection, the Forward writes, “…the 44th president of the United States has done more than any other non-Jew we can think of to shape the American Jewish story in 2011.” The description goes on to discuss the president’s “near-tidal wave of Jewish support” in his 2008 presidential win, but then also cites his difficulties in relating to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Forward also writes that, while some American Jews are abandoning the president, Obama’s opposition to Palestinian statehood and “unprecedented military support for Israel” should be noted.
The Forward even covers the fact that New York Magazine recently called the president “the best friend Israel has right now,” something the Blaze covered in detail back in September. The newspaper continues:
In countless Jewish social settings, the mere mention of Obama’s name elicits passionate and conflicting responses — so much so that the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress recently called for an end to the use of Israel as a political wedge issue. Believing that such a move would censor criticism of the president, Republican groups angrily refused. Meanwhile, after Obama’s defense of Israel at the United Nations in September, his approval rating in Israel soared. It’s been that sort of year.
First a Nobel Peace Prize just months into his presidency, and now recognition for being one of the year’s most influential Jews (when he isn’t even Jewish). Minus the political debate that has eclipsed portions of his presidency, its been a few good years in terms of honorary achievements for President Obama.
This story has been updated.
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Comments (282)
Robert-CA
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:28pm& they’re gonna vote for him make no mistake .
Report Post »bjornskis
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:35pmyou don’t think a liberal Jewish person would ever vote conservative even if that person wants the destruction of Israel
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:36pmthink…. if they did not include OBAMA… then they would be at risk of being sued by the same people sueing that catholic university… FOR NOT BEING PC ENOUGH… if there wasent a black muslim some people could get offended
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:47pm.
Report Post »At least Sammy Davis Jr. could sing and dance…………….
crackerone
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:49pmWell, if they can give B O a peace prize….
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:59pmIs there any ethnicity or religion that barry isn’t a part of? Id love to see how we identified himself on the census…
Report Post »jkjk
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:00pmI hope this is a joke !
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:10pmSome People just have short memories, You have to be kidding !!
No one will call out this POS for what he is………..History will tell..
NOBAMA-2012
Report Post »Alky
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:20pmWhat are these people smokin’??
Report Post »Lordchamp
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:22pmThey will vote for him because they are JINO’s, Jews in name only. No Jew that truly loved their homeland could in good conscience vote for a man like BHO. What precisely has he done to help and support Israel that would warrant their vote? Pathetic sheep.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:45pmThe Blaze shouldnt tease TECHENGINEER with a story like this.
Report Post »mscott2112
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:54pmI am one Jew who has not nor would ever vote for Obama or anyone who believes in Big Government (and that includes most Republicans). If you look back at history, it is ironic that Jews made up a large segment of Fascists in Mussolini’s Italian government (Yes, please read Liberal Fascism – Jonah Goldberg) yet 6 million were murdered by another statist regime (think Nazis). It is regrettable that so many Jewish people don’t understand/know/recognize their past history. I am one such Jewish guy who understands that statism/progressivism usually leads us down a path to state tyranny usually ending in civil war, brutal violence and loss of life. I have been busy educating my brethren.
Report Post »lillycatoscar
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:01pmReally! Of course they are going to vote for him. I would truly like to know, where they get their info from? Do they only hear what they want to hear? This president, is not a friend of Israel, or the Jews. Really! I can’t stop saying that. I have a great admiration for the Jewish people, but are American Jews really so disillusioned? I have to say, that those Jews living in Israel are nothing like these back woods liberal Jews of the US. All I have to say is, may God have mercy on them all, because if Obama’s agenda comes to pass, they will be some of the first to be murdered by Obama’s extreme muslim friends.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:04pmI don’t understand why the Jewish people see him for what he really is? It seems the Christians are more concerned for the Jews than the Jews themselves. I don’t get it.
Report Post »lapua338shooter
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:10pmWhat the hell are these people thinking???? How about the 50 people most destructive to America & her Freedom? I can think of a few others obummer fits into however, Blaze would not print them…
Report Post »lecar
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:23pmSO could they print this list and distribute it amound the OWS crowd?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:31pmCan you say marrano?
Report Post »korbin
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:52pmThis world is full of dumb asses. Period. Most people are just plain *** ing stupid. Stupid, sheep following anything. Think for yourselves, use your brains. Swear to God my one year old has more sense than 99% of humans.
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:12pmWith something like 70% of Jews voting for Odumbo in 2008, and the possibility that half might still vote for him in 2012, I have to wonder who really cares more about Israel, Jews or non-Jews? I’m NOT Jewish, but believe in standing firm with a true ally. My father-in-law IS Jewish (so he claims, but doesn’t follow any of the traditions or go to temple) and voted for Odumbo,
Add to that the consistent anti-Semitic views of the Progressive left and I am really left wondering why ANY Jew would support Odumbo and the Progressives.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:12pmObama’s mother was a Marxist and their family attended a Non Christ centered Church.. I always assume that Obama was probably Jewish given their wide support of him and his Marxist ways.. I‘ve neverr been able to prove it but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Report Post »grandma7
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:35pmThis turns my stomach. The whole thing. I know jews who feel this way… even after he sold them out. What on earth is wrong with these people???
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 5:56pmDid anyone see the picture of Richard Morgenstern in the list. They used a portrait of George Washington for him????
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:04pmThis is not about being jewish….it’s about being Godless. The atheist jew new idol…BHO.
Report Post »Bekrhed
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 7:38pmI love this website, the people leaving comments are clueless.
News flash…
Jews can be rightwing or they can be leftwing…just like any other religion.
For example, Obama (correct spelling) has difficulties relating to Prime Minister Netanyahu because Netanyahu is RIGHTWING and a NATIONALIST…of course he doesn‘t see ’eye to eye’ with him.
You people are dumb as a bag of hammers.
But please keep commenting, it’s very funny.
Report Post »Lateris
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:20pmConsidering that Judaism is less than 3% of the population in America it makes me wonder why there is so much focus on the Jewish religion here in the media or abroad.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:16pmThe liberal Jews need to get their friggin heads out of their hind ends and acknowledge that Obama is not their friend. What is it going to take, Obama to come to their front door insisting that they where a yellow star on their garment designating that they are a Jew? Unbelievably Ignoramuses!
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 11:44pm@youngblood….Is there any ethnicity or religion that barry isn’t a part of? Id love to see how we identified himself on the census…
your post above is simply excellent. Now that we have endured Bill Clinton as the first white “black” president who is married to the smartest woman in the world….we can move on to the next level of complete liberal insanity and suffer Barack Obama…the first black, Winston smoking (as in non menthol), former mosque attending but now Jewish hero non-Jewish Jew. Wow…this is all sort of like a role playing video game except it’s real. Real stupid that is.
Report Post »SonOfaCommunist
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 12:21amI’m gonna go with, this isn’t a real Jewish Paper! It’s as if Stalin was the owner of the paper and just called it Jewish to appeal to people that are supposed to be Jewish. All while Stalin is laying down the bread crumbs that lead to those “chambers” that are not very nice!
I guess history does repeat itself….sadly.
Report Post »LIONANDTHELAMB
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 6:14pmYou think so?
Report Post »I hope not.
Pigpen
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:44pmThis is why I love theBlaze. The posts here really make me feel positive and hopeful even when the news articles are so depressing. Finally, the Christians are catching on about the truth behind Jewish (both secular and religious) behavior. The Jewish vote is liberal because the Jews despise and seek PERPETUALLY to destroy Christianity in the West. Remember, remember, that YOU are the enemy to the Jewish mind. In the Jewish mind YOU are just a few hymns on Sunday away from morphing into a concentration camp guard. In the Jewish mind YOUR CHILDREN are just a few campfires songs away from mutating into the Nazi Youth. The Jews do NOT blame the Nazis for the Holocaust. The Jews do NOT blame the Germans for the Holocaust. The Jews BLAME CHRISTIANS for the Holocaust. Honestly, regardless of your feelings for Israel, honestly ask yourself, what else explains the consistent and predictable behavior of the Jewish Community both here in the USA and abroad?
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:28pmPlease explain why Richard Morgenstern picture is George Washington?
Well, as I suspected Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman-Shultz was listed. However, I was surprised to see Eric Cantor’s picture and Anthony Weiner-gate listed.
Report Post »lapua338shooter
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:11pmYou mean Anthony Weiner & his “congressional member”?
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:27pmSo the current selecting group has devolved the original idea behind who and why someone was selected, into nothing more then a list of notoriety.
Report Post »TurboCat
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:21amThey will be sorry if Obongo gets re-elected, because then we will see more of his true nature. And he will have nothing to lose (no need to hide his agenda if re-elected).
Report Post »Angie
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:25pmWhere have these people been?!!!??? Making $8.00 an hour pretending to go to Mars? Mix them up some cherry flavored Kool-aid!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:28pmNew York Jews .. continue to not understand .. Obama works AGAINST ISRAEL! Why do New York Jews even call themselves “Jews” anymore .. they should stop pretending.
Report Post »six6six
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:50pmCATB, it’s good to know that you know more about being Jewish than the New York “Jews”
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:20pmThey forgot to mention Homer Simpson !!
What do you expect from a progressive rag ??
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:44pmCatB
Report Post »New York Jews are Socialists, Communists, Liberals, Progressives, DEMOCRATS FIRST, and Jewish second. You are correct. Connecticut Jews are cut from the same cloth, I personally know their Progressive leanings.
greeneyes1982
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:24pmHas the whole world gone mad?? This is insanity! These people must all be wolves in sheeps clothing…no other explanation.
Report Post »Beverly Barnum
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:24pmWhen I started reading this, I thought it was because Obama united a goodly portion of America in supporting Israel more than ever because he awakened them to his real agenda to destroy Israel and hand America over to radical ideology. Silly me! I should have known better!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:22pmAgree.
“…the 44th president of the United States has done more than any other non-Jew we can think of to shape the American Jewish story in 2011.”
…yep! For the worse.
No Predident in history has done as much damage to Israel as Obama has done in the past two years. Taking Carter into account, that’s saying something.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 6:38pmBEVERLY BARNUM,
YOU NAILED IT! MERCI! MERCI!
I was disgusted watching the video.
This woman Jane Eisner is certifiable! She says,”The forward fifty is a snapshot in time,an impressionist picture of the American Jewish story during the given year.”
My only hope is that Jane Eisner speaks for Jewish Americans as Nancy Pelosi speaks for ALL Americans.
I must add…, Gabrielle Giffords?! Dear God in Heaven!
Yes…,sorry about what happened to her. I wish her complete rehabilitation. Still.., she voted FOR Obamacare! She sold our country down the river! And Wasserman Shultz is her buddy! Giffords was just another congressman(universal) that put party before country! UGH!
Does Eisner know of the friendship of President and First Lady Dunham with Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohorn?! SURfreakingREAL!
I post from Wonderland. Down is up. Up is down. We’re painting the roses red.
Report Post »I quote the Chesire Cat…,”We’re ALL mad here.”
Infidel49
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:23pmA perfect example of mental illness. I say send him to Israel, make him PM so we can get him the hell out of here.
Report Post »Rillobymorning
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:02pmCan we trade him for Netenyahu?
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:33pmI really like Bibi!! I would certainly vote for a trade!
Report Post »EwwyLee
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:08pmGet your own president – hands off Bibi !!!!
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:23pmThe Jewish Forward is just plain backward (and progressive).
Report Post »tweet
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:21pmYou have got to be kidding me!!!!
Report Post »curleyfry
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:05pmI was going to say the samething. Thank you for saying it. All you want to say is “STOP”. Are you just completely out of your mind. Can’t see the forest for the trees. Rose colored glasses. What really what???
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:21pmWow, I didn’t know that Obama was a Jew; when did he become Jewish? Does his Muslim Brotherhood know he converted?
Apparently, this magazine is a fake Jewish rag, because no sane Jewish magazine would honor Obama after how he treated Netanyahu.
Report Post »bestartist
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:01pmSadly, this no fake Jewish rag.
The Forward is the biggest Jewish daily in America. I grew up with this paper in our home.
I just wrote them a letter….It really is a sad thing to watch so many of my fellow Jews embrace those who certainly do not have their best interests at heart…
Report Post »all I can think of are all those poor hapless Jews saying “it could never happen here” and docilely board the trains for the Camps”
oy……Shabbat Shalom
cemerius
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:21pmGotta love them self-hating Jews!! JAPs Jewish American Princesses always sleep facing 5th Avenue! Magazine I do not read and really you all are shocked over this? The man recieved the Nobel Peace Prize for “hope and change”?!?!
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:20pmAs an American Jew who is very patriotic I can accept the fact that the paper can chose and pick whoever they want to honor. I feel that there are many non-Jews that have done more for Jewish people then President Obama has ever done in his lifetime. That’s my opinion on the subject.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:29pmOK, so I’m not delusional? It really is that twisted around? A personal note: My kids and I worry for you, your faith, your bloodline and your Motherland, Israel. We stand with you and you’re in our thoughts and prayers.
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:31pmWhat are you talking about RAJABEAR1? When did I ever say you were delusional? You don’t have to worry. It’s great to show support to Jews and Israel. Just keep it kosher.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:25pmNo, not you or anyone else calling me delusional, just in general I felt like I was. It was refreshing to hear and American Jew reflect what I have been seeing and hear your point of view. (-:
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:32pmYes, I understand what you’re saying now. When I was younger and active in the Marine Corps it was my duty to uphold the Constitution. I’m very faithful to the U.S and Israel.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:13pmJOHNNY916,
I do not mean to pick on you but it seems your “PATRIOTISM” is more like“MORAL RELATIVISM”.
Ya know…,it’s all good…,whatever!
This is pure insanity! Take a stand!
Report Post »JethroUSMC
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:19pmWow!!! The authors head is clearly up his ass.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:19pmI’m just floored. Are they really NOT paying attention. If the American Jews can’t decipher his actions/intentions for themselves, what more can we do? I find it bewildering that American Christians seem to care more for the future of Israel and the intention of extermination of Jews worldwide than they themselves care.
Report Post »They have eyes, but cannot see.
They have ears, but cannot hear.
They have mouths, but cannot speak.
They have brains, but cannot—wait, DO they have brains? I’ll hold off on that speculation till I see some evidence.
God, save and protect Israel and her children.
Your will be done.
db321
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:22pmThe Bible calls it a Vail of Blindness – that soon will be lifted.
Report Post »PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:52pm@RAJABEAR : I get so angry and so frustrated when I read this kind of S___T that I am almost ready to say __ck the Jews. They are moron lemmings. S___w them let them follow the Muslim Obamer Jew of the cliff. Almost ready.
Report Post »Timothy_Reid
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:17pmWell he’s got the Muslims in his pocket, and now he’ll have the jews in his pocket. All that’s left is for the Pope to endorse him. lol
Report Post »db321
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:28pmI guess this is how Kaddafi got all of his medals – self appointed. I can see Obama in the Michale Jackson outfit with all his medals across his chest.
Report Post »Oraclevoiceofreason
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:16pmWow – these peeps are disillusion if they think Obama supports Israel. how tiring
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:16pmDoes George Soros own that too?
Report Post »db321
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:24pmLetting Obama in is like letting the Fox into the Hen house
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:15pmWill they ever learn?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:18pmThey did in the New York 9th district.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:30pmYes they did. Hope it’s contagious.
Report Post »Mop
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:15pmHow drunk are the journalists at The Jewish Forward? He’s done more for the Jewish people than any other President? Well, he’s definitely done more to denounce the Jewish people than any other President. Hallo? Wake up!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:22pmPathetic huh?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:15pmGosh. I thought Jews were supposed to be smart. Just shows how wrong prejudiced ideas are…
Report Post »raiderglenn
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:14pmYeah, Obama will build a sweet memorial where Israel used to be…. of course you’ll need a radiation suit to go look at it…
He is in bed with the people who want Israel gone you idiots!
Report Post »Jayms
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:14pmOh my, this is so dumb.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:13pmThat’s a Kabbalist Journal so OF COURSE they would herald Obama having done more for them.
The author of this article should research to get at the truth instead of trotting stories out because they pay by the character. Sorry Billy but this is sloppy Journalism.
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:25pmI’m not at all familiar with the type of paper that this is. You seem informed, could you elaborate a bit so we/I can understand why in the world this paper would even come up with this stuff. Is it very left wing lib or is it like a Soros deal? When I see things like this, I’m just blown away and really kind of scared of the American Jews fate along with our own if they celebrate a man that has been groomed to annihilate them.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:49pmSure RAJA.
When the rag first was published it was born on the idea’s of the Socialist Labor Party. Over the 100+ years of it‘s existence it’s produced splinter groups, while maintaining its heritage. Vorwarts (The Forward), a communist magazine. Two of their favorite contributors were Trotsky, and Frederick Engels (of Karl Marx fame). Hitler shut them down during WWII.
What makes them Kabbalist is the fact that they favor a mysticism over spiritualism.
Report Post »DesertRose1960
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 2:25pmYou seem to be more than a little anti-Semitic, The10thAmendment. The Forward was founded in the U.S., Hitler didn’t shut them down, and besides favoring Socialists, they also published Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yes, Trotsky was a contributor, but Engels was not, the magazine was founded two years after he died. Kabbalah is a long-standing, conservative Jewish movement, the Hasidim are often involved in the study of Kabbalah. Spiritualism is not common in Judaism, and indeed spiritualism is against Biblical teachings. Rahm Emanuel is the son of Sabras, and a very commited, observant Jew. Soros is a Secular Jew, so is Benjamin Bernake, as are many, many Jews, especially in Israel. They are not “fake ass Jews” just because they are Liberal. By the way, who are you to determine who is and isn’t Jewish? By what authority do you make this assessment? And what is your assessment of Beck’s pet Rabbi, Lapin?
Report Post »josh345
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:12pmas a new york conservative jew, i can say that i completely agree with desertrose1960, however also agree with most people here in saying that a large percentage of my fellow new york jews have bad political ideas
Report Post »ArabChristian
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 4:36pmKabbalist? How, exactly, are the leftist staff of the Forward “kabbalist”? I’d be interested to hear a defense of this oddball statement…
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:17pmPeople talking should at least make the effort to know what the hell they’re talking about. Desertrose, you are so far off it’s unfathomable that you could have made any effort to know the truth.
Get started with learning from their own website. Then come back and flap your jaws. There’s no sin in being uneducated, but there is shame in abject ignorance.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/303579/Jewish-Daily-Forward
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 8:50pmSorry to disappoint you desertrose but, I have no anti-semitism. I harbor anti Kabballah sentiment because it’s pure evil.
Fake Jews.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 9:12pmDon’t you just love the anti-God hatred of the Great I AM promoted by the Jewish Forward Daily?
http://www.forward.com/articles/123336/
Report Post »Nonknower
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 10:24amYou have incorrectly assumed that all “ Kabbalists” are monolithic in their thoughts. I am Jewish and have studied Kaballah for the past five years. I can assure you that my political leanings are way to the right. My favorite politicians are Paul Ryan and Allen West. Too bad they are not running for higher office. I would also like to say of the thirty members that attend our weekly classes, about 20 of them are conservative. Almost reverse the percentage of Jews nationwide who lean to the left. I am sure the article you countenance states what you have explained. The Kaballah teachings I have learned just enhance the goodness that is out in the world, and recognizing that too improve your lot on earth, stay away from the darkness and head toward the light. In simpler words. Perform good deeds. There are also a half dozen Christians who attend the classes as well. Three of them are liberal, a higher percentage of libs than the rest of the class. Finally, I love the Tenth Amendment. I just wish this country would follow and honor the last amendment to the Bill of Rights!
Report Post »cherigc
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:12pmOh crap, I just threw up in my mouth!!!!
Report Post »Rajabear1
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:32pmDitto.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:12pmIf they think he’s the best friend Israel has right now, they don’t need enemies
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 1:16pmKabbalists do. They include “Jews” (they really are not) like Soros and Rahm Emanuel, Ben Bernake, and several more abject fake ass Jews.
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