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November 11, 2015
American Jews' New Obsession: Transgender Rights
By Lauri B. Regan
On my way back from David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend in Charleston, I opened up the Post and Courier newspaper to Section D, entitled "Faith & Values." What struck me was an article on the second page reporting that the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) had adopted a resolution supporting transgender rights. The resolution calls for congregations and camps to have gender-neutral bathrooms, use gender-neutral language, and train religious school staff on gender issues.
I have no idea what any of this gender identity noise really means, but I have concluded that this whole movement (together with the delegitimization of Israel, the legalization of marijuana, demonizing those who are offended by Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue trade, push for single-payer health care, and prosecution of those who question the scientific basis of man-caused global warming) is just one giant progressive wave to further supplant Judeo-Christian values and alter the moral fabric of our society.
Jews are being stabbed, run over, and shot on streets across Israel on a daily basis; they are fleeing Europe en masse as anti-Semitic attacks have become common place; and BDS (the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement) is flourishing across the globe as the number of hate groups continues to grow and their influence continues to be peddled. The streets of American cities are becoming unsafe, as Jews become victims of attacks with Molotov cocktails and knives, our college campuses have become anti-Semitic centers of pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas hate including violence and intimidation by members of Muslim hate groups, and liberal American Jews, including mainstream Jewish establishments, welcome anti-Israel groups into their open tents.
But the URJ has its priorities straight, and transgender rights are at the top of the list. Perhaps we should not be surprised. After all, last week the JCC-Manhattan hosted a Shabbat dinner with the virulently anti-Israel, pro-BDS New Israel Fund (NIF) and featured a far-left speaker who regularly criticizes the IDF. The UJA-Federation in NYC permits anti-Israel groups like B'tselem, NIF, and J Street to march in its annual Israel Day Parade. Rabbi Gordon Tucker of the Conservative Temple Israel of White Plains donated funds to NIF and boycotted a Stand in Solidarity with Israel rally that I organized in front of a venue hosting the virulently anti-Semitic Jewish Voice for Peace hate-fest. And Rabbi Tucker was not alone. The entire Westchester County Jewish community – each and every synagogue and Hebrew day school – was advised by the Westchester Jewish Council, an umbrella group that includes NIF and J Street as its members, to boycott our pro-Israel rally, and so they did.
If there is one thing that I have learned since Barack Obama was elected with 78% of the Jewish vote in his first election and 68% in his second, it is that American Jews do not prioritize Israel. But gender neutrality issues? Really? I was aware that liberal Jews were inexplicably obsessed with abortion and witnessed it firsthand when I spoke on a panel in front of 200 wealthy Jewish women in the month before the 2012 election. They grabbed the microphone from each other yelling at me that Obama was a terrific friend of Israel and that Romney was going to take away their daughters' and granddaughters' right to an abortion. This was particularly inexplicable given that every single woman in the room lived in the bluest of blue states across the country, but the psychosis pervaded the room.
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Perhaps it will take a miracle to alter that state of affairs. As one of the Chosen People, I do feel confident that we will eventually prevail. But that does not mean that we do not eat our own through our arrogant, destructive, holier-than-thou attitudes and unethical value systems that have harmed us in the past. And it certainly does not mean that large-scale pain and death will not occur before we wake up as a people and realize that God's commandments have absolutely nothing to do with progressive garbage and everything to do with saving Israel and fighting together for our and her survival.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/american_jews_new_obsession_transgender_rights.html#ixzz3rKZGk3NG
American Jews' New Obsession: Transgender Rights
By Lauri B. Regan
On my way back from David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend in Charleston, I opened up the Post and Courier newspaper to Section D, entitled "Faith & Values." What struck me was an article on the second page reporting that the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) had adopted a resolution supporting transgender rights. The resolution calls for congregations and camps to have gender-neutral bathrooms, use gender-neutral language, and train religious school staff on gender issues.
I have no idea what any of this gender identity noise really means, but I have concluded that this whole movement (together with the delegitimization of Israel, the legalization of marijuana, demonizing those who are offended by Planned Parenthood's fetal tissue trade, push for single-payer health care, and prosecution of those who question the scientific basis of man-caused global warming) is just one giant progressive wave to further supplant Judeo-Christian values and alter the moral fabric of our society.
Jews are being stabbed, run over, and shot on streets across Israel on a daily basis; they are fleeing Europe en masse as anti-Semitic attacks have become common place; and BDS (the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement) is flourishing across the globe as the number of hate groups continues to grow and their influence continues to be peddled. The streets of American cities are becoming unsafe, as Jews become victims of attacks with Molotov cocktails and knives, our college campuses have become anti-Semitic centers of pro-Palestinian/pro-Hamas hate including violence and intimidation by members of Muslim hate groups, and liberal American Jews, including mainstream Jewish establishments, welcome anti-Israel groups into their open tents.
But the URJ has its priorities straight, and transgender rights are at the top of the list. Perhaps we should not be surprised. After all, last week the JCC-Manhattan hosted a Shabbat dinner with the virulently anti-Israel, pro-BDS New Israel Fund (NIF) and featured a far-left speaker who regularly criticizes the IDF. The UJA-Federation in NYC permits anti-Israel groups like B'tselem, NIF, and J Street to march in its annual Israel Day Parade. Rabbi Gordon Tucker of the Conservative Temple Israel of White Plains donated funds to NIF and boycotted a Stand in Solidarity with Israel rally that I organized in front of a venue hosting the virulently anti-Semitic Jewish Voice for Peace hate-fest. And Rabbi Tucker was not alone. The entire Westchester County Jewish community – each and every synagogue and Hebrew day school – was advised by the Westchester Jewish Council, an umbrella group that includes NIF and J Street as its members, to boycott our pro-Israel rally, and so they did.
If there is one thing that I have learned since Barack Obama was elected with 78% of the Jewish vote in his first election and 68% in his second, it is that American Jews do not prioritize Israel. But gender neutrality issues? Really? I was aware that liberal Jews were inexplicably obsessed with abortion and witnessed it firsthand when I spoke on a panel in front of 200 wealthy Jewish women in the month before the 2012 election. They grabbed the microphone from each other yelling at me that Obama was a terrific friend of Israel and that Romney was going to take away their daughters' and granddaughters' right to an abortion. This was particularly inexplicable given that every single woman in the room lived in the bluest of blue states across the country, but the psychosis pervaded the room.
...
Perhaps it will take a miracle to alter that state of affairs. As one of the Chosen People, I do feel confident that we will eventually prevail. But that does not mean that we do not eat our own through our arrogant, destructive, holier-than-thou attitudes and unethical value systems that have harmed us in the past. And it certainly does not mean that large-scale pain and death will not occur before we wake up as a people and realize that God's commandments have absolutely nothing to do with progressive garbage and everything to do with saving Israel and fighting together for our and her survival.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/american_jews_new_obsession_transgender_rights.html#ixzz3rKZGk3NG
