This may not be true for anyone, except me. But, I foundLeonWeisltier’review of Norman Podhoretz’ Why Are JewsLiberal? In the NY Times Book ReviewSection of 09-13-09 to be interesting, informative and a bit frightening. There was a great deal about the forming of the Jewish intellectual mind as a result of the European experience and why so many Jews who adopted Americanism fell in love with democracy and flocked to the Democrat Party

Mr. Podhoretz was and is an apologist for Conservatism and Republicanism.

        Jews, like anyone else can be conservative or liberal and occupy positions in between as well as on the extreme right and left.  Their religion is incapable of being characterized by political terminology. They have been active in all aspects of business and intellectual life.  I personally believe in a Judaism that is socially sensitive and aggressively active in the Liberal sense.

All the kids in school with me during the Great Depression were Roosevelt Democrats.  Their children are another story.  After a life-time of work my father retired as an owner of a Mom and Pop Deli store and became a Republican.  I think his story was replicated in many homes of his generation.  He was concerned about economic conditions while I worried about unemployment and the starving children

In Africa and Asia my mother reminded me about at almost every meal.  There were no Young Republican groups in those days.

            Mr. Podhoretz agonized about the Jewish Liberal leaning to the Democrats and complained they did not see the beauty of the Conservative root belief of “possessive individualism” that plainly could live with any of the political or economic convictions that splintered a non-unified and individualistic religion that survived the Holocaust.