Jewish conservatism

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 as it is synonymous of being a warmonger) and will find few American conservatives actually espousing to be neoconservatives. Many Neoconservatives were Jews who are displeased with leftist Jewish anti-Zionist as well as with Labor Zionists and their efforts in promoting the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, which they perceived as undermining Israel's right to exist and pandering to Islamists' hostility to Jews and threats to destroy the Jewish state.

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" and their support for Jewish state in the Land of Israel.

Prominent Jewish conservatives in the United States include Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Lee Zeldin, Laura Loomer, Shmuley Boteach and Chaya Raichik who operates Libs of TikTok.

In the context of Classical Conservatism, prominent Jews include Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Horace Günzburg, Isaiah Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Jo Benkow.

See also

• Jewish left
• Judaism and politics
• American Jews in politics