T. Belman. As I read this article I noted much loose talk about fundemental values etc but no arguments grounded in the constitution or our law. The women failed to make their case. They just whined.
National Council of Jewish Women says Supreme Court will no longer be a place where vulnerable people can hope for justice
By TOI STAFF
National groups representing US Jewish women decried the Senate’s confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Saturday, calling it a “devastating blow” to women and survivors of sexual assault.
Kavanaugh was swiftly sworn in Saturday after a deeply polarized Senate narrowly voted to add him to the bench of the highest court in the land.
The day’s events capped a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted women three decades ago — which he emphatically denied. Those allegations magnified the clash from a routine Supreme Court struggle over judicial ideology into an angrier, more complex jumble of questions about victims’ rights, the presumption of innocence and personal attacks on nominees.
Kavanaugh, a father of two, has strenuously denied the allegations of Christine Blasey Ford, who says he sexually assaulted her when they were teens. An appellate court judge on the District of Columbia circuit for the past 12 years, he pushed for the Senate vote as hard as Republican leaders — not just to reach this capstone of his legal career, but in fighting to clear his name. The battle crested with a judiciary panel hearing in which he wavered between sobs and angry outbursts at Democratic senators.
Even before the sexual accusations grabbed the Senate’s and the nation’s attention, Democrats had argued that Kavanaugh’s rulings and writings as an appeals court judge had raised serious concerns about his views on abortion rights and a president’s right to bat away legal probes.
Citing both Kavanaugh’s response to the allegations against him and his conservative judicial bent, the National Council of Jewish Women said it was “outraged that the highest court in our nation will no longer be a place where balance and respect is given to all parties in a dispute.”
“We will now face a highly conservative court where women, survivors, and many other vulnerable people in our society can no longer look to the Supreme Court as their last hope for justice to prevail,” NCJW head Nancy Kaufman said in a statement.
Rabbi Marla J. Feldman, executive director of Women of Reform Judaism, said Kavanaugh’s confirmation was “a shameful example of the dysfunction of our leadership and the need for women to stand in solidarity behind the victims of sexual assault.”
Senators on both sides of the aisle have acknowledged that they have work to do to put the chamber back together again after a ferocious debate that saw them arguing over the sordid details of high school drinking games, sexual allegations and cryptic yearbook entries.
Feldman said her group’s outrage was directed not at Kavanaugh but “at the US Senators who allowed the hearings to devolve into partisanship and obfuscation.”
“The American people deserve better,” she said.
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, had denounced Kavanaugh last month, as the Senate Judiciary Committee sent Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate for a vote,
“The Reform Jewish Movement continues to believe that Judge Kavanaugh’s elevation to the Supreme Court would significantly jeopardize the most fundamental rights, rooted in our enduring Jewish values, that we have long supported,” Pesner said.
The Associated Press and JTA contributed to this report.
It’s striking that to this lefty, “balance and respect” are the main concern of judges, rather than an understanding of the laws codified in the US Constitution. It’s also obvious that she went off the Derek not only of Judaism, but in regard to common sense and logical thinking. Coming out of reform Judaism myself, I know her values are not those of Torah.
They are just Progressives who happen to be Jewish as opposed to Korean or Nigerian, say. So what? There is nothing distinctively Jewish about their politics. If there were, they would be concerned that Federal judges suspended Arizona’s anti-BDS law and Iran and US
Sanctions which are supposed to go.to the next level nect month. They care more about infanticide on demand than protecting Jews. Women in Green is a Jewish group These are just Communists using their ethniciry as cover.
They no longer know what they believe or think they should believe. However, as long as they don’t use their eyes to see or their ears to hear, there’s no way to help them.
This poor excuse for a Rabbi..this guy (or gal) Pesner, bleating off about “the most fundamental rights rooted in our Jewish values…”
I suppose he means making sure his kids learn nothing about the real Israel, and marryng them when they pick up a multi-coloured shiksa from a sleazy nightclub; NOT LEAST supporting and marrying two Lesbians, male fruitcakes, or trans-sexuals with or without all their plumbing.
All rooted in “our enduring Jewish values…”
I don’t advise going to look for them there; you’ll either go blind, or find them rooted in a garbage dump.
All this of course is lauded in the Torah, which anyway they don’t believe in. They only believe in Jewish “values”,,,.which means….. anything but Judaism, with a strong preference for controlled anarchism,
The “values” they mean are the dollars they constantly shill for from their pulpits,
American Reform Jewish movement has absolutely no respect for or belief in “enduring Jewish values.” The only values that they cherish are those that are trendy in leftist circles, such as homosexuality (forbidden by Torah) and intermarriage (strongly discouraged by Jewish tradition). I amsick andtired of the Boshevik tactics of the left, including Jewish leftists. They profess values for propaganda purposes that they don’t really believe in or practice.
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Certainly not all Jewish women; but if one must generalize, the NCJW and Reform Jewish rabbis have been supporting this denial of civil rights. Frankly, I don’t think either group has given much thought to the ethics of the matter: They simply want power.
So Jewish women believe that an accusation, not just wihtout corroboration is enough to ruin the SCOTUS