Re:Liberal, Harsh Denmark
by notahacker on Saturday February 27, 2016 @05:09AM
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It still seems very strange to single them out to Europeans, where strictly observant Jews are a tiny minority, especially when in many respects the most strictly observant Judaism resembles far more mainstream Islamic culture, with Muslims being a much larger, more likely to be foreign-born and faster-growing minority.
(This is also reflected in the way anti-Semitic sentiment in Western Europe tends to focus on Israel and perceived Zionist conspiracies whilst Islamophobic sentiment tends to focus on the idea that Islam could never be compatible with European culture)
I'm sure those aren't the people the parent commenter was referring to.
Jews throughout the world follow an incredibly broad spectrum of belief and practice, including an extremely broad set of views about how to relate to other cultures. At the most conservative end, there are some communities who view it as an essential life priority to try to follow all of the laws of the Torah fully and literally. This may include not only the dietary and Sabbath laws, but also rules about sexual modesty and limiting physical contact between the sexes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzniut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negiah
and for some people also varying degrees of effort to limit social interactions with non-Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishul_Yisrael
See generally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism
for the people who are making the most conscious effort to be socially and culturally separate from secular society.