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Jewish conservatism

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “political and social conservatism rooted in or inspired by judaism and specifically jewish concerns”. Today it says “political and social conservatism rooted in”.
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Political and social conservatism rooted in Judaism Not to be confused with Conservative Judaism , a Jewish religious movement . Jewish conservatism is political and social conservatism rooted in or inspired by Judaism and specifically Jewish concerns. In a 2015 essay for Mosaic , Eric Cohen identified three planks of Jewish conservatism: Jewish ideas about traditional family , hawkish foreign policy, and economic liberalism . Neoconservatism is an American political movement that formed in opposition to the New Left . Many American Jewish conservatives either identify personally or have been categorized as Neoconservative; though the term in general post-Bush Administration has taken on a negative connotation (Neocon or Neo-Con is usually derogatory) and will nowadays find few American conservatives actually espousing to be Neoconservative. Many Neoconservatives were Jewish liberals displeased with leftist anti-Zionism . Some Jewish conservatives in the west, especially those in the United States, ally themselves with conservative Christians under the perception of shared "Judeo-Christian values" . Prominent Jewish conservatives in the United States include Ben Shapiro , Dennis Prager , Lee Zeldin , Laura Loomer , and Chaya Raichik, who operates Libs of TikTok . Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement .

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political and social conservatism rooted in or inspired by judaism and specifically jewish concerns

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political and social conservatism rooted in

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