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Two Tribes? [Lisa Schiffren]
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last week results of early voting by expat American Jews in Israel were
released, with John McCain winning about 70% of the votes. This has
something to with the reality factor, when your personal house is in
the line of fire of Iran's half-built nukes. And it has something to do
with the fact that the majority of Jewish immigrants to Israel from the
U.S. over the past two decades have been Orthodox, of one stripe or
another. Social and religious values dictate conservative politics
among Orthodox Jews as among the religious of most Christian
denominations.
So, today I was at the Modern Orthodox day school my fourth and
fifth grade children attend, to participate in part of the election day
program, which included the traditional mock election. Let's assume
that all of these kids voted the way their parents — or their more
vocal parent, in split homes — vote. When the principal announced that
the winner was John McCain the auditorium went wild. And it was a
blowout — 73% for McCain.
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