Reply To: Why Are Torah Observant Jews Overwhelmingly Republican/Conservative?

Benig: I don’t agree with your assessment regarding climate change and immigration. The chachmei umos ha’olam also tell us that the world and mankind is millions (or billions) of years old and that most of the rest of the Creation narrative given in Bereishus is also fiction. Must we bite? Even with that, regarding climate change being man-made I don’t think the scientists themselves consider it being man-made as a firmly established fact. Additionally, the issue of climate change has been heavily politicized within the scientific community. They’ve been caught with their pants down admitting among themselves in private emails that they were lying to the public in order to whip up greater alarm. (Their only response to that scandal was to demand whoever publicized their private correspondence be caught.)

Regarding the attitude toward immigrants, the only real dispute between the two political parties is regarding illegal ones; regarding legal ones there’s little disagreement between them. And regarding illegal ones, the Sheva Mitzvos demands that the law be upheld and enforced. Which falls closer to the Republican position on the issue.