Feder Puts the "Judeo" in "Judeo-Christian"

Ya know, it's funny. I've been a staunch supporter of Israel my entire adult life. I've defended the Jewish state almost without condition ever since I've been online. Down the sidebar you'll see overt evidence of that point of view. And yet on many an occasion I've been angrily engaged by liberal Jews who insisted that my faith made me a "Nazi" by definition.

Well, Don Feder is Jewish, but neither liberal nor under any misconception that Jews and Christians don't have far more interests in common than in conflict.

Former Boston Herald columnist Don Feder has founded a new group called Jews Against Christian Defamation – and he says "if Christians fail, America will fail.”

"We formed Jews Against Christian Defamation because we felt a real need for Jews as Jews to respond to attacks on Christians,” Feder said in an interview with Christianity Today.

"Oftentimes when Christians are attacked and Christian organizations object, the response is, ‘Well, you’re thin-skinned. You’re overly sensitive. Unless people are completely complimentary, you think it’s an attack. There’s self-interest involved.’

"With a Jewish organization or a group of Jews taking this position, no one can accuse us of self-interest, because we’re not Christians, but we’re objecting to attacks on Christians.

"Beyond that, as American Jews we’re concerned about the moral decline of America, and we view attacks on Christians basically as attacks on biblical morality and part of the moral deconstruction of America.

"Since Christians are being attacked for adhering to Judeo-Christian morality, which of course includes our morality, we felt that we had to respond.” [my emphasis]

Perhaps I should amend the above preamble: Mr. Feder is a Jew who takes his Judaism seriously - dare I say it, "fundamentally." He "gets it."

And so do his compatriots, not all of whom necessarily approach this project from the direction of moral solidarity:

The group, which was founded in April, includes six rabbis – three Orthodox, two Conservative and one Reform.

But despite differences in religious approach, what unites members "is our political perspective, which tends to be, obviously, very similar to that of traditional Catholics and evangelical Christians,” said Feder.

Other members, per another story in Frontpage magazine, include syndicated columnist Mona Charen, popular talk-show host Barry Farber, Rabbi Joshua Haberman, Rabbi Yehuda Levin,
David Horowitz (Center for the Study of Popular Culture), Morton Klein (Zionist Organization of America), Herb London (Hudson Institute), Bruce Herschensohn (professor, Pepperdine University), Rabbi Daniel Lapin (Toward Tradition), syndicated talk-show host Michael Medved, Rabbi Jacob Neusner (professor, Bard College) and comedian Jackie Mason.

Perhaps it's no more complcated than I wrote above: Jews Against Christian Defamation recognize the avid, and biblically-inspired, support offered by evangelicals, and that that is a rare and strong source of pro-Semitism in a world growing more anti-Semitic by the day to levels not seen since the heyday of the real Nazis.

Without "Jesusland," Israel cannot long survive. The only Jews who don't recognize that fact are those whose religioethnic heritage has been swallowed up in their rancid seculo-statist ideology - an ideology not all that different from the National Socialists of yore, if taken to its logical conclusion.

[Feder] told Christianity Today he hopes the group will raise the level of awareness about increasing political attacks on Christians in a country "founded by Christians and the tenets of Christianity.”

Christians are "not being attacked on theological grounds, they’re being attacked on moral grounds,” said Feder.

"They’re being attacked because they object to same-sex marriage; they object to abortion on demand; they support public displays of the Ten Commandments; they support voluntary school prayer.

"Christians are the last remaining obstacle to the triumph of secular humanist values. And that’s why we say that if Christians fail, America will fail.”

And the Holy Land along with it.

Christians and Jews are definitely stronger united than divided. I welcome JAA-CD to the culture war as an honored and honorable ally.

As soon as Mr. Feder's group opens its website and makes a banner or button available, http://reborn-by-design.com/if-project.html is going to have a new neighbor on the ol' sidebar.