Who benefits?
On March 9th, The Los Angeles Jewish Journal published a sprawling (3,800 word) article The new power of a Latino-Jewish coalition in L.A. by Jonah Lowenfeld. Despite the headline (and an even more tendentious Cover picture entitled They Like Me, They Really Like Me – The blossoming Jewish-Latino courtship) the article wends its way through a thicket of happy ra-ra Jewish outreach stories to get to an inconvenient fact:
The Latinos aren’t on board – particularly about the sacred nature of Israel…..The Jewish groups that support comprehensive immigration reform typically say that their positions are based on a combination of lessons …but it’s clear that they do this to help solidify Latino-Jewish alliances as well.