Sunday Kugel = Kings Republicans

Monday in the wee hours, my blogger-figure Gatemouth released "The State of the Kugel 2012," fulfilling his bi-annual ritual of analyzing the Orthodox Jewish vote in Brooklyn. (The Jewish vote is actually a constant topic on his blog, and since the recent change in the Borough's democratic leadership, I make an uneducated guess that this is the most frequent subject he's obsessing with. Still, the numbers are thoroughly reviewed and adjusted every 2 years, and when I tried to write on the same subject without referencing this review, I was rebuked that "nothing OP says wasn't already said by Gatemouth"). The headline struck me: The republicans are real kugel.

Kugel before going to bed Sunday, is bad at it gets, my dear friend. As much you have learned about the Orthodox culinary taste, even knowing how to avoid the Mayim Chaim shower, it occurs that you don't have the kugel basics. When you last wrote about Kugel, it was on Friday afternoon, when Kugel is a hot commodity, and is gobbled up shortly before  candle-lighting by young and old. Sunday night, on the contrary, is when the kugel smell is nauseating. The only way you get to touch it then, is when your wife is serving the Sabbath leftovers - no wonder UWS hubbies are outraged that Bloomberg wants to ban the ridding of the leftovers by donating them; and no wonder why Joseph Hayon haven't bought a slice kugel for him-self, when he served you one on a Sunday....


No, I'm not turning into a Food Maven, but it increasingly looks to me that while the Orthodox republican vote still have a kugel aroma, it's like the Sunday Kugel, whose shelf-live expired. They vote republican in State and national races, where their vote matter little, but locally, where they can make a difference, they aren't doing it now. Would the republicans embrace the Jewish vote, in local races, they could have made inroads and could have more than compensate on their loses in Bay Ridge. Instead, they missed a major opportunity that presented it-self during the last few elections, and according to some this was intentional. As a result, they retreated deeper into the trenches.

State Senator Simcha Felder may be a republican by heart and policies, but in order to carry further the momentum of the Turner and Storobin victories, the republicans had to show another win in Brooklyn. Instead, they let down the only sole-republican elected in Brooklyn. My articles on the relations between the republican party and the Jews were largely based on complaints that they haven't done enough for David Storobin. during Storobin's court battle to stay on the republican line, parts of these spilled out in public.

I see little chance for Brooklyn and the Orthodox community to elect a republican to the state legislature in the near future to (I doubt that the Orthodox will squander there vote for a republican in the Assembly, should Hikind resign).

Ironically, the best chance the republicans have, is for Frank Seddio to follow through with his threat to expel Felder. But given his nice-guy demeanor, I'm not pinning much hopes on that. 

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