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In United States politics, the trends of Jews have changed political positions multiple times.Many early American German-Jewish immigrants to the United States tended to be politically conservative, but the wave of Eastern European Jews, starting in the early 1880s, were generally more liberal or left-wing, and eventually became the political majority. [1]
Stuart Cohen has pointed out that there are three separate power centers depicted in the Hebrew Bible: the priesthood, the royal throne, and the prophets. [1]One model of biblical politics is the model of the tribal federation, where power is shared among different tribes and institutions.
Judaeo-Christian ethics (or Judeo-Christian values) is a supposed value system common to Jews and Christians. It was first described in print in 1941 by English writer George Orwell . The idea that Judaeo-Christian ethics underpin American politics, law and morals has been part of the " American civil religion " since the 1940s.
A variety of other languages are still spoken within some American Jewish communities that are representative of the various Jewish ethnic divisions from around the world that have come together to make up all of America's Jewish population. Many of America's Hasidic Jews, being exclusively of Ashkenazi descent, are raised speaking Yiddish ...
In April 1902, at the instance of Henry M. Goldfogle, a member of Congress from New York, the House of Representatives passed a resolution calling upon the secretary of state to inform the House "whether American citizens of the Jewish religious faith holding passports issued by this government are barred or excluded from entering the territory ...
California's first and only Jewish governor Idaho: Moses Alexander [1] Democratic: January 4, 1915: January 6, 1919: Idaho's first and only Jewish governor Utah: Simon Bamberger [1] Democratic: January 1, 1917: January 1, 1921: Utah's first and only Jewish governor New Mexico: Arthur Seligman [1] Democratic: January 1, 1931: September 25, 1933
The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the President of the United States, has had 47 Jewish American members altogether. Of that number, 27 different Jewish American individuals held a total of 27 permanent cabinet posts, having served as the heads of the federal executive departments; 20 different Jewish Americans have held 21 cabinet-level positions, which ...
Eugene B. Borowitz (February 20, 1924 – January 22, 2016) was an American leader and philosopher in Reform Judaism, [1] known largely for his work on Jewish theology and Jewish ethics. He also edited a Jewish journal, Sh'ma , and taught at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion .