John Kasich Explaining a Story From the Torah to Yeshiva Students Is Peak John Kasich
Politics
In a fitting demonstration of his peculiarly inept and yet brashly dickish way of moving through the world, John Kasich hung out with some Orthodox Jewish yeshiva students on Tuesday and explained a story from the Torah to them. John: they know. I promise you they know.
“You guys like Joseph?” Kasich inquired of men who study the Torah all day, in an encounter captured by Jewish Insider. He was in Boro Park, an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn. He was referring to a story from Exodus, part of what he probably calls “the Old Testament” and which his hangout buds would call the Torah. It’s almost Passover, wherein we re-tell the story of Joseph, at length. John. Babe. Don’t do this.
The video taken by Jacob Kornbluh at Jewish Insider begins with Kasich, for some reason, arguing with a middle-aged Orthodox man about whether Moses or Abraham is more important to the Jews. His conversation buddy suggested both are important.