Jews and Everyone Else for Jesus

We are chided incessantly to never judge people by their skin color, despite the fact that everything, including who we appoint to political office and, most recently, to sit on the Supreme Court, is laser-focused on skin color. Yet somehow it's still okay to judge people based on what religion they choose to follow. 

The fact that I am a Jew and Jews have been persecuted since the beginning of time -- although honestly I have only experienced it once in my 78 years -- robs me of any sympathy I might otherwise feel for people on the receiving end of considerable DEI perks from the government and higher education because they were born black or brown or red or yellow, and yet they clamor for even more. 

Jews, Catholics, Mormons and Muslims, and the followers of the other ancient mythologies that somehow enable people to live each day knowing that they could die any minute each courts the same persecution. It's nutty, and wrong. If believing they will get 72 virgins or their own planet or go to Heaven when they die encourages people to live productive lives, I'm all for it.

Not so Kamala Harris, who recently stiffed the Al Smith fundraising dinner put on annually by Catholic charities to support needy children in New York City. Days later at a campaign stop, she told a heckler who shouted "Jesus is Lord!" that he was "at the wrong rally." These mistakes can't get her the votes of the 20% of Americans who identify as Catholic. And just weeks ago she unwisely shunned the top pick to be her running mate, Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro, because he's a Jew.

At this point my advice to Kamala is to get out there and shout, "Amen, L'chaim and Allahu Akbar" and take any vote she can get.