I'm Only Letting Right-Wing Jews on the Lifeboat

The estimable John Podhoretz writes about his love and gratitude for America:

On this day of all days it needs to be said: America has been a blessing for the Jewish people unlike any other blessing given any other people in the history of the world.

One crime — or 29 separate crimes, committed at the same time by a monster in human form — cannot be allowed to overshadow this extraordinary fact.

A nation so welcoming it threatens to absorb and Americanize you out of sheer good will.

Consider also that America is the one nation on earth that unequivocally supports Israel and Trump is the most unequivocally pro-Israel president ever.

This is less important to Jews of a certain stripe, those who find Israel's nationalistic bellicosity to be problematic when at the tonier parties in the Northeast Corridor. 

We speak of course of the afore mention son-of-a-bitch, Franklin Foer.

Let us take of another such reporter, Julia Ioffe who wrote: 

And a word to my fellow American Jews: This president makes this possible. Here. Where you live. I hope the embassy move over there, where you don’t live was worth it.

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) October 27, 2018

Somewhere, a rabbi weeps. But not Rabbi David Wolpe who condemns the Ioffe's and Foer's of Jewish world:

So when I see major American Jewish figures tell me that my congregants are illegitimate, my blood boils a little bit. After the tragedy in Pittsburgh, perhaps because I spend so much of my time at the bedside of the sick and dying, I expected that the first impulse of Jews in particular would be to simply offer messages of sorrow and condolence.

When we go to services, or drop our girls off at Hebrew School, we don't ask our fellow congregants their political views. We don't care. 

Ye to Rabbi Wolpe. Mensch.