American Jews lack survival skills, and liberalism isn’t serving them well

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – A friend who’s a Hasidic Jew once told me that if there are two candidates for an office on the ballot — and he knows nothing more about them than that one has a Jewish-sounding name and the other does not — he invariably votes for the one he thinks isn’t Jewish, because, as he puts it, there’s less of a chance he’ll be “meshuggeneh” (crazy).

I thought of that when I read the latest Survey of Jewish Voters by the Jewish Electoral Institute, which shows that in a potential 2024 contest between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, Jews favor Mr. Biden over Mr. Trump by 50 percentage points.

Washigtom Times reported this is not an anomaly. In 2020, Mr. Biden got 70% of the Jewish vote. Hillary Clinton did as well in 2016. Today, 61% of Jewish voters view the president favorably, compared with 41% of the public.

Even though Mr. Trump was the most pro-Israel president in our lifetime and Mr. Biden is the most hostile to the Jewish state, an overwhelming majority of Jewish voters are eager to march off a cliff holding the Democratic banner.

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Embassy was finally moved to Jerusalem, Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights was recognized, and historic peace treaties were signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Don Feder

Former editorial for Boston Herald