"There are no explicit limitations placed upon Jews in higher education at present. Stanford University has recently apologized for discriminating against them in the 1950s. Asian Americans, however, have recently sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina for their affirmative action policies, which have the effect of discriminating against them. If they win when the Supreme Court takes up their case, this will have implications throughout academia. Well, Asians are not the only ones to suffer from these policies; Jews do, too.
What of abortion? This appears to be a big selling point for the Democrats. What is the Jewish position on when human life begins? Contrary to widespread myth, it is not when the fetus graduates from medical school. Rather, it is when a heartbeat can be discerned. But many states prohibit abortion only after this occurs, typically at 15 weeks. So, this trump card (pardon the expression) works less well with this community than might otherwise be thought. It cannot be denied that many secular Jews do not keep kosher, do not respect the Sabbath, etc. This is at least to some degree a matter of convenience. But the heartbeat criterion has little to do with that motivation.
There is one caveat to the aforementioned thesis. Jewish Americans might be less offended by the massive illegal immigrant incursions at our southern border than others are. They remember that in the 1930s, Jews from Germany were forced back to from whence they came: an utter disaster for this group of people. One political leader went so far to answer the query of how many Jews he would allow into his country as follows: “None is too many.” True, he was a Canadian, not an American, but such a sentiment applied to politicians in this country as well during that epoch."
