In an interview with The New York Times ahead of the paper’s endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he is “proud to be Jewish” but is “not actively involved in organized religion.”
“I am Jewish,” Sanders told the Times’ editorial board when asked whether he believes in God. “I am proud to be Jewish. I was bar mitzvahed from the Kings Highway Jewish Center, a long time ago. I am not actively involved in organized religion.”
The Times notes in a comment in the interview that “if elected, he would be the first Jewish president, and also one of few who have openly discussed a disconnect from organized religion.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Bernie Sanders: I’m Proud To Be Jewish – But Not Actively Involved… in the Torah, which is why I married a non-Jew and I’m so G-dless and lawless.
Bernie staffer wants to send Trump supporters off to the gulag
And get this. It’s because he claims that we’re Nazis. How ironic is that? HE wants to send US to concentration camps, yet we’re the Nazis?
I am also proud to be Jewish but not actively a supporter of Bernie Sanders
I was bar mitzvahed from the Kings Highway Jewish Center, a long time ago
How do you get bar mitzvahed?
The actual name of the shul is The Kingsway Jewish Center.
I have an uncle who is in his 80s that davens there. He said that no one his age in the shul remembers Bernie Sanders or his parents. In fairness when Bernie Sanders’ father died in the 1960s none of those people lived in the neighborhood yet. (But you can be sure that had they been davening there back then they wouldn’t know that family anyway)
Israel-lovers, take a hike
I’m the Jew Jew-haters like
Sulimeini was an error
It’s a war crime to stop terror
Like my idol, Jimmy Carter
I think he’s a heroic martyr
Ilhan Omar is my bestie
If you bash her I’ll get testy
All of Israel’s hills and valleys
Belong to my good friends, the Palis
Netanyahu is a bigot
Let’s turn off our funding spigot
To Hamas our cash should funnel
What’s wrong with a terror tunnel?
Give them rockets, bombs and mortars
I’m with BDS supporters
Trump’s Pro-Israel, yes I sensed it
Since he’s for it, I’m against it
“Mazel Tov” I’ll sometimes wish
I’ll even eat gefilte fish
That’s my religion’s full extent
For my forebearers I repent
I care not for your angry twaddle
Leon Trotsky is my model
I ignore your angry bristling
I’m proud to be a Jewish Quisling
I’m the first choice of AOC
Now be like her and vote for me
Anonymous
Great poem. Thank you. Said it all.
NICE ONE.
He is in the Secret Service!!!
However:
https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/4601577/jewish/In-Iowa-Bernie-Sanders-Lights-a-Public-Menorah.htm
“As mayor of Burlington, Vt. in the 1980s, Sanders publicly inaugurated the Chabad-Lubavitch Public Menorah at Burlington’s City Hall, and later directed his administration to defend it in court, defying significant political pressure in doing so.”