If you are a committed Christian and I am a committed Jew, there is a 100 percent chance I will not invite you to Saturday morning services, nor will you extend an invitation to me to pray at your Sunday morning services.
For what purpose?
A loyal liberal like the editor of the Jewish Journal mechanically would answer:
“So each can develop a more sensitive perspective of the other’s religion.”
Why?
Then the editor is stuck in his beloved neutral gear, bereft of a reply.
I contend there is no distinction between the above illustration and the following agreement struck with a best friend:
“You sleep with my wife tonight and I will sleep with your wife next Monday.”
Why? Obviously, so we can develop a more sensitive perspective toward each other’s spouses.
Help Me Understand
And how does that improve sensitivity?
The neutral-worshipping editor of the Jewish Journal found his tongue parked – again — in a No Stopping zone.
When you are not serious about your religious commitment (as the Journal editor strives to show each week), then, halavei, as we Jews say. Shrug. Shrug. What possible difference does it make, as both the editor and Hillary regrettably have said?
It is, of course, the wrong question, and that will spawn a separate discussion.
In the current issue of the Journal where the feel-good editor shallowly plumbs the ugly recent anti-Semitic flareup at UCLA sparked by a self-loathing Jew questioning a committed Jew, the editor pantingly runs to his readers schlepping a mound of excuses for the angry, offending student in both of his sagging arms.
Depth and seriousness are not what the Jewish Journal does. Why discuss then? Because the only Jewish weekly in Los Angeles influences many in and out of the Jewish community.
We are all alike, the editor continues, with a juvenile patina, to insist.
Muslim Offenses? No Problem
Oh, sure, there was Muslim Jew-hatred in the case of UCLA sophomore Rachel Beyda, an involved Jew, contending for a seat on the Undergraduate Students Assn. judicial board.
A disgusting fellow Jew asked Ms. Beyda, “Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community, how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?”
The anti-religious editor of the Jewish Journal not only made made convenient excuses for the angry girl but for heavyhanded Muslim roles in this instructive tableau because liberals are frightened by Muslim terrorists and fear being identified as an enemy of the terrorists.
The editor excuses the whole ragged bunch of anti-Semites in Weestwood by characterizing them as “very bright students,” therefore incapable, in liberal eyes, of doing wrong.
Neatly, the editor even whitewashes the despicable Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Finally, he drops into a crawling position. Hoping to curry favor with any Muslims or self-loathing Jews he may have offended, he flashes his ignorance.
He applauds “observant Muslim and Jewish students” at U.C. San Diego for “working to create the university’s first kosher/halal dining hall where observant students can eat together.”
Jews who keep kosher never would touch food prepared under Islamic dietary laws. But, hey, it makes the editor feel good about himself. That is his objective.
