Silencing of the Liberal American Jew
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- Category: Europa, Usa, etc
- Published on Saturday, 09 June 2012 10:24
- Written by J.J. Goldberg
The Jewish Daily Forward, June 05, 2012
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| Silencing Liberal Voices: A Miami synagogue recently scrapped a talk by Debbie Wasserman Schultz after a powerful member who is a Republican complained. Read more: http://forward.com/articles/157128/silencing-of-the-liberal-american-jew/?p=all#ixzz1wzX5YNDX |
The great Jewish civil rights agencies that once fought for a broad spectrum of progressive policies now devote the bulk of their resources narrowly to pro-Israel and anti-terrorism advocacy. Jewish federated charities, a multibillion-dollar network of social services heavily dependent on government dollars, are regularly blocked by tiny minorities of Republicans from advocating even the sorts of federal budgets that would ensure their own fiscal health. The range of our moral concerns as a faith community becomes ever narrower, ever more focused on ourselves. We are in danger of becoming, in classic Seinfeld fashion, a religion about nothing.
