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Out With the Old
13 December 2006Trouble ahead for the accelerating press narrative of a new "religious left": American Jews aren't just conservative on Israel anymore. The rightward shift of American Jewry has been an ongoing story for some time, but this report in the Forward -- revived by the brilliant neocon editor Seth Lipsky, who has since moved on to the even more conservative New York Sun -- puts it succinctly: Jack Rosen, chairman of the once-liberal American Jewish Congress, tells the Forward's Marc Perleman "We just can’t have the same format and the same priorities that we had 20 years ago.” What's hot, according to Rosen, a Clinton supporter in the 90s and a Bush supporter when supporting Bush put you in the majority: fighting terror and antisemitism. What's not: fair housing, health care and civil rights. Cause, you know, there's nothing in Jewish tradition about "justice." That's just a liberal thing.
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