An insightful article in the Washington Post which has somehow bypassed the usual Jewish Supremacist censorship of the mass printed media has revealed the secret and bizarre world of Jewish “religious” institutions.
The article, titled “Young Jews rebelling against paying dues” by Lisa Miller, is supposed to be a report on how some Jews are refusing to pay monthtly dues to their local synangogues, but goes on to instead provide an insight into what exactly goes on under the guise of that religion’s gatherings.
“Across the country, young Jews are rebelling against the old, dues-paying model of synagogue membership. Their parents might have written the membership check without a second thought, but these folks don’t part with their money so easily.
“Not when there are so many other bills to pay. Not when Jewish identity has become as much about what you eat (or don’t eat) and who you marry (or don’t marry) as where you worship – or, in the old vernacular, “belong.”
“And there’s a third problem. Young Jews viscerally rebel against the money culture of the American synagogue, where dunning and giving are explicit transactions.
“Dollars separate not just insiders from outsiders — who gets tickets to High Holy Days services and who doesn’t. Cash donations also sort members into tiers on the basis of who gives the most.
“In Reform and Conservative Judaism, money talk has become a barrier to the kind of spiritual belonging that young people crave.
““The focus is on power, money and a lot of alienating stances,” says Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, in a wide-ranging conversation recently.
“I hear this all the time among my unaffiliated Jewish friends. Churches don’t charge dues to the tune of an average $2,400 a year. Instead, churches say: “Welcome. Come in. Have a seat. Do you want coffee?” Churches say – and it’s happened to me a dozen times – “How can I pray for you this week?”
“Chabad — an Orthodox Jewish group that has had much success with outreach, especially on college campuses — doesn’t make “belonging” a matter of money. “Chabad gets that,” Jacobs says. “You have to get to know someone, ease into being a friend.” A study last year by the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring found that a million American Jews are unaffiliated with synagogues but seek (and often find) a Jewish spiritual experience elsewhere.
This article shows that there is far more to Judaism than just a “church” –it is a racial organization which looks to its own group’s interests, and has no interest in bringing in outside converts—in strong contrast to every other religion on earth, which are always looking for new converts.
