true reason why jews vote democrat

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There is a VERY good reason for the Jews, both Orthodox and otherwise, to vote for secularist candidates in the US: the last time I checked, the US was a Christian majority country.  If the "wall of separation" between church and state is ever breached, it is the religious Jews that will face the brunt of the unpleasantness.

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One thing to note. While the Russian Jews themselves, especially those over 50, tend to be the Orly Taitz type, they are quite secular (in many cases their concession to the religious tradition is limited to not eating pork during Passover) and their kids tend to assimilate into the general liberal secular US Jewry, with everything it implies for their voting preferences. Of course, the extended Brighton Beach is heavy in the rump unassimilated vote, but it would be wrong to expect that electorate to stay conservative in a generation.

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Example: Ilya Sheyman. While he's never specified what his parents' views are, he's a great example of a very young, Generation Y member of the eastern European Jewish community who is also extremely progressive.

Oh, it's the common lament of middle-aged Russian Jewish parents: their kids do not share their views. Actually, it's more like their kids dread their parents ever opening their mouths to talk politics in public. Just imagine, being a run-off-the-mill good Jewish kid, who's gone to Harvard or Berkeley, who volunteers for good causes etc., and whose Dad has Reagan's portrait onf the front page of his family photo album and is convinced that Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim who wants to bomb Israel. The worst thing is, the same Dad, half the time, is equally vocal about Putin being the best thing that ever happened to Russia (unless, of course, he is determined that those Russians who stayed are all subhuman and Moscow should be nuked).