As evidenced by recent articles in the Chicago Jewish media, many Jews who otherwise have no problem rejecting the eternal moral principals of life stated in the Torah, are now invoking so called Jewish morality in their desire to buttress their views on the American immigration controversy.
A sterling example of their negation of Jewish morality is their pro-choice advocacy. This position is in contradistinction to the Orthodox & Conservative approaches which limit abortion to very few circumstances, and even is in opposition to Reform Judaism, which, while not having a formal legalistic [Halachah] approach to Jewish morality, does give voice to opinions that do not countenance the pro-choice position. As Richard Alan Block writes in his The Right to Do Wrong: Reform Judaism and Abortion, “The time has come for Reform Jews to stop touting radical freedom as Reform Judaism’s greatest virtue, and to abandon, ‘We’re Reform: we can do whatever we want’ as Reform Judaism’s credo.’” What is most disturbing about these selective “Jewish” moralists is that in quoting Jewish morality they distort it to justify their desired position.
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