A Jewish Brooklyn judicial candidate says she was robbed of victory when her Protestant opponent changed her name to Cohen to seem more kosher at the ballot box.
“It is deception,” Tehilah Berman, 49, told The Post of rival lawyer Caroline Piela’s legal name change to Caroline Cohen during a nasty race for Civil Court judge. “It was wrong to deceive the Jewish and non-Jewish public.
“Catering to religious groups is not proper in this democracy,” said Berman, an Orthodox Jew from Flatbush. “People should be proud of their religion and not make believe they are something else.”Hilarious. Catering to religious communities who vote on the basis of religion is bad, is it?
So all the Jews who voted for Caroline Piela, thinking that she was a Jew, are bad, right?
No, it is Piela who is the guilty party, for taking advantage of in-group preference by pretending to be a member of a different group.
The fact that Jews will vote for Jewish candidates is perfectly fine.
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