Yes, Jews believe in Heaven.
But does this NYT White House correspondent ‘believe’ in basic research? Google? Wikipedia?
Or maybe she was so thrilled at the idea of mocking POTUS that she impulsively “went for it.”
And ended up “stepping in it.”
New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni attempted to mock President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening by claiming that “Jews don’t believe in heaven.”….
Trump said:
A second Holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner at Dachau. He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as American soldiers rolled in with tanks. “To me,” Joshua recalls, “the American soldiers were proof that God exists, and they came down from the sky.” They came down from Heaven.
The last line was not in the president’s prepared text.
Karni seized on the remark, suggesting that Trump was ignorant, and perhaps insensitive to Jews:
Trump just ad-libbed "they came down from heaven" when quoting a Holocaust survivor watching American soldiers liberate Dachau. Jews don't believe in heaven.
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) February 6, 2019
Karni later added this:
This was sent to me by a reader: "While it’s true that the Hebrew Bible does not mention an afterlife, there is a complex eschatology that includes a very detailed map of the Jewish afterlife contained in rabbinic, kabbalistic and Hasidic literature."
— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) February 6, 2019
But Twitter comments were not so forgiving:
Wow you have a reader that knows how to use Google? Perhaps you can get a few pointers in case you’re asked to write anything factual.
— Ser Macallan XVIII (@nottaitz) February 6, 2019
Perhaps you should delete this tweet and maybe put away your rabid liberal bias before speaking for an entire group of people.
— Sharply Right 🇺🇸 (@SharplyRight) February 6, 2019
Although Judaism believes in heaven, the Torah speaks very little about it. The Torah focuses less on how we get to heaven and considerably more on how to live our lives. U need to learn how to live yours or we won't be seeing U
— ColorMeRed 🇺🇸 (@ColorMeRed) February 7, 2019
Why don’t you just tweet you hate Trump and call it a day?
— Barbara Winston (@BarbaraS370) February 7, 2019
In other words, the same concept as heaven. Nice work turning a beautiful sentiment for this Holocaust survivor into a pretty jab.
— C. Whitehouse (@CAWhitehouse7) February 6, 2019
Yes, President Trump’s moving Holocaust story is indeed true:
Here is the link to the History Channel story of their reunion. It’s extremely compelling and accurate. Surprise: https://t.co/RvCYN1THEj
— Cognitive One (@CognitiveOne) February 6, 2019
I am not worthy, but there are others, maybe Jewish people, who should school her! The tweeters here have done an excellent job!
It’s an odd thing, but many Jews promote the falsehood that Jewish dogma holds that there is nothing beyond this mortal life. (Not to pick on Woody Allen, but he provides a good example. In Allen’s film “Café Society”, one plot point involves a Jew who, believing death to be imminent, converts to Christianity because “The Jews don’t have an afterlife.”)
All the News that’s Fit to Print. No?
Then, The Truth is More Important Now than Ever. Strike 2?
I give up. At least, its former editor isn’t charged with plagiarism. Wut?