Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Jonathan Rosenblum has some very interesting points to make in the Op-Ed section of Ma'ariv.

God fearing or fearing God

Eli Valley, the author of a recent Jerusalem Post piece, who works for Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt, warns that President Bush’s evangelical supporters are bent on “converting the Jews and ending the Jewish religion.” Given the phenomenal success of American Jews themselves in ending the Jewish religion through intermarriage and assimilation it is unclear why the evangelicals should cause shudders.....

The consequence of this disdain and scoffing at people of religious faith and the determination to keep any taint of religion out of the public square is to convince is to convince Jewish kids that belief in G-d – and certainly the view that any consequences might flow from that belief – is simply not intellectually serious.



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