(SRN NEWS)-( ) Younger American Jews care less about Israel than their parents and grandparents. That’s the conclusion of a new AP-NORC poll which reveals that support for Israel is a key component of the religious identity of many Jewish adults ages 45 and older. Amongst younger Jews, support for Israel is less firm. About half […]
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(SRN NEWS)-( ) Younger American Jews care less about Israel than their parents and grandparents. That’s the conclusion of a new AP-NORC poll which reveals that support for Israel is a key component of the religious identity of many Jewish adults ages 45 and older. Amongst younger Jews, support for Israel is less firm. About half of older religious Jewish adults say that supporting Israel is very important for their identity. By contrast, only about 40 percent of younger religious Jewish adults emphasize support for Israel. Older American Jews see the Jewish state as a refuge in case of another mass purge similar to the Holocaust.
( ) Some pro-abortion groups want to see state laws that go further than Roe versus Wade did and lift all restrictions on abortion right up to the moment of birth. The National Abortion Federation, an organization of abortion providers, says it is opposed to “rigid legal cutoffs that ban or restrict abortion care at viability or arbitrary gestational lines.” The organization does not raise money for political campaigns, but its positions may indicate what some other groups are thinking. In 2024, national abortion groups fought a South Dakota measure calling for a ban on the procedure during the third trimester and allowing some restrictions in the second trimester. That legislation was defeated by voters in a referendum.
( ) Israel’s parliament has approved laws that effectively halt the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox men into the country’s military. Lawmakers voted in a marathon session this week to both end the arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders and to enshrine Jewish religious studies as a “foundational value” of the state. Both laws represent significant concessions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party to ultra-Orthodox politicians seeking to formalize their community’s de facto exemption from serving in the military, which is compulsory for most Jewish men and women in Israel. Many Israelis oppose the exemption.