{"id":508430,"date":"2021-05-14T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=508430"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T19:20:51","slug":"orthodox-jews-trending-even-more-toward-republican-party-while-vast-majority-of-american-jews-lean-left-despite-democrat-position-on-anti-semitism-and-israel-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orthodox-jews-trending-even-more-toward-republican-party-while-vast-majority-of-american-jews-lean-left-despite-democrat-position-on-anti-semitism-and-israel-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Jews Trending Even More Toward Republican Party While Vast Majority Of American Jews Lean Left, Despite Democrat Position On Anti-Semitism And Israel, Poll Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Forthodox-jews-trending-even-more-toward-republican-party-while-vast-majority-of-american-jews-lean-left-despite-democrat-position-on-anti-semitism-and-israel-poll-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=508430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1210034748.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>According to a new Pew Research Center study, the vast majority of Orthodox Jews identify as politically conservative, indicating an increasing trend for religious Jews on the Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/05\/11\/10-key-findings-about-jewish-americans\/\">survey<\/a>, three-quarters of Orthodox Jews say they are Republican or lean that way, compared to 57 percent of Orthodox Jews who were Republicans or Republican leaners in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This swings in the opposite direction when we consider the other branches of Judaism. Among Conservative Jews, 70 percent are Democratic voters or lean to the Left. This rises to a staggering 80 percent for Reform Jews, and 75 percent for Jews of \u201cno particular branch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among the entire American Jewish population, 71 percent identify as Democratic or lean that way, while just 26 percent are Republican or lean Republican.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPolitically, U.S. Jews on the whole tilt strongly liberal and tend to support the Democratic Party,\u201d wrote Pew Research. \u201cWhen the new survey was fielded, from late fall 2019 through late spring 2020, 71% said they were Democrats or leaned Democratic. Among Jews of no religion, roughly three-quarters were Democrats or leaned that way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut Orthodox Jews have been trending in the opposite direction, becoming as solidly Republican as non-Orthodox Jews are solidly Democratic,\u201d Pew noted. \u201cIn the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, 75% of Orthodox Jews said they were Republicans or leaned Republican, compared with 57% in 2013. And 86% of Orthodox Jews rated then-President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of policy toward Israel as \u2018excellent\u2019 or \u2018good,\u2019 while a majority of all U.S. Jews described it as \u2018only fair\u2019 or \u2018poor.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among the other notable findings from this survey which add further confusion to the stark divide between conservative politics and religion, three-quarters of American Jews think there is more anti-Semitism in the U.S. today compared to five years ago, while 53 percent say that \u201c<\/span><span>as a Jewish person in the U.S., they personally feel less safe than they did five years ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another interesting finding was that 82 percent of American Jews said \u201c<\/span><span>caring about Israel is either \u2018essential\u2019 or \u2018important\u2019 to what being Jewish means to them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>About six-in-ten (58%) say they are at least somewhat attached to Israel, and those who have been to Israel are especially likely to feel this way (79%),\u201d Pew added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This juxtaposition between political affiliation and the value of Israel as part of a Jewish identity seems strange given the deep divides between the American Right and Left when it comes to Israel, and particularly the ongoing conflict between the Israeli military and Hamas terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden, a Democrat, failed to mention or condemn Hamas this week while offering the view that \u201c<\/span><span>Israel has a right to defend itself,\u201d while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/553252-ocasio-cortez-hits-biden-for-taking-the-side-of-occupation-in-mideast-violence\"><span>criticized<\/span><\/a><span> Biden\u2019s vague response as \u201c<\/span><span>taking the side of occupation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In addition, anti-Semitic attacks have reportedly risen to \u201cnear-historic highs,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/covid-quarantine-didn-t-stop-antisemitic-attacks-rising-near-historic-ncna1265425\">Jonathan Greenblatt<\/a>, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our annual Anti-Defamation League\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/audit2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Audit of Antisemitic Incidents<\/a>\u00a0for the 2020 calendar year, released Tuesday, we found that Jews in the U.S. reported a disturbing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/audit2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2,024 incidents of antisemitism<\/a> last year, a rate of harassment 10 percent higher than in the year before and one of the highest overall in the last five years,\u201d wrote Greenblatt.<\/p>\n<p>According to the audit, \u201cNearly half of the assaults [against Jews] nationwide took place in the five boroughs of New York City, including 11 in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new Pew Research Center study, the vast majority of Orthodox Jews identify as politically conservative, indicating an increasing trend for religious Jews on the Right.According to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278182,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1210034748.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Orthodox Jews Trending Even More Toward Republican Party While Vast Majority Of American Jews Lean Left, Despite Democrat Position On Anti-Semitism And Israel, Poll Shows","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1210034748.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Orthodox Jews Trending Even More Toward Republican Party While Vast Majority Of American Jews Lean Left, Despite Democrat Position On Anti-Semitism And Israel, Poll Shows","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}