Stop Letting Israel Dictate Your Vote!
Hello from Canada! I am a non-Jew who married into a Jewish family whom I adore and, from what I gather, adores me too. As such, we talk about everything, including, gasp, politics and religion. My mother-in-law and I recently got into it because she is planning on voting for Conservative Stephen Harper for Prime Minister in our upcoming elections because, nearly exclusively, of his stance on Israel. Otherwise, he doesn’t really represent her mostly progressive beliefs — something she readily admits. Seesaw, as a non-Jew I must confess that I really don’t understand this. My question, should a non-Jewish son-in-law try to convince his Jewish mother-in-law to not let Israel factor so heavily in her ballot decisions? Is doing so just crossing the line?
Have an interfaith quandary? Email us at: seesaw@forward.com
Your Comments
The Forward welcomes reader comments in order to promote thoughtful discussion on issues of importance to the Jewish community. In the interest of maintaining a civil forum, The Forward requires that all commenters be appropriately respectful toward our writers, other commenters and the subjects of the articles. Vigorous debate and reasoned critique are welcome; name-calling and personal invective are not and will be deleted. Egregious commenters will be banned from commenting. While we generally do not seek to edit or actively moderate comments, our spam filter prevents most links and certain key words from being posted and the Forward reserves the right to remove comments for any reason.
VIEW COMMENTS