The Last Jewish Congressman in New York

Liberal Jews and their politicians are vanishing. In 2020, there were three Jewish House members from New York City. By the end of 2022, there may be none

When New York Jews turn to pro-Israel members of Congress from the city, they usually go to Rep. Ritchie Torres, a black gay Latino politician from the Bronx who has become the most vocal pro-Israel Democrat from the city.

There are plenty of young Jewish liberals and leftists, but they don’t belong to communities. And they are less likely than ever to see themselves as members of a people.

The older generation was still culturally Jewish, even if their first allegiances were to liberalism and to the Democrats, and even if their Jewishness consisted of little more than a Yiddish word and childhood memories.

But their younger counterparts don’t even have that. Or really anything except leftist culture.

New York’s Jewish House members have disappeared because there are no longer Jewish Democrat communities. Instead there are Republican Jewish communities and people with Jewish last names who belong to no community, who are generally agnostic when it comes to religion, and whose only culture is pop culture.

Jewish Democrats helped destroy their own electorate. And are eliminating themselves.

The Jewish communities that will remain will be traditional, religious, and conservative.

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