Although pro-Trump voices currently dominate American Orthodox discourse, Jews and rabbis in all segments of American Orthodoxy actively support Vice President Biden for president, including Rabbis Menachem Genack and Moshe Lichtenstein. Prevented by professional considerations from expressing political views, many of my colleagues at the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) and beyond are pleased that I am publishing this column. Of course, the views expressed are mine only. VOTING AS AMERICAN (ORTHODOX) JEWS Voting in a democracy is a great privilege and responsibility. To wisely cast our votes before God and fellow citizens, we must educate ourselves, balance competing concerns, and consider the future. Rarely do we agree with a candidate on everything or even everything important to us. As members of a small, long-persecuted group, Jews rightly consider whether a given matter is “good for the Jews” or “good for Is
softening though, quoting proverbs, not being as bombastic, showing his family and tweeting about his coming grandchildren, and keep that base that the professor is referring to, because they re angry. how does he find the balance to be more mellow as the front-runner and yet still capture that anger of apparently of the base that he s appealing to? as a political observer, i don t want him to be kinder and gentler. i like the bombastic trump, certainly a lot more fun to talk about. trump supporters are not ideologically driven. they like trump the character. i think he s just rounding out this character, whether or not they find it believable, that s another thing, but donald trump the family man, hey, why not? write that chapter, too. but the outsiders are the candidates catching fire, not only trump but carson, fiorina.