Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, a leading figure in the ultra-Orthodox community in the US, said Friday that his followers should vote for US President Donald Trump in November.
Kamenetsky, 95, who heads the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, said, "I think people should vote for him. He's done a good job. It's 'hakaras hatov' [gratitude]."
The majority of American Jews vote for Democrats, but recent election campaigns have shown that the Orthodox community increasingly favors Republican candidates. The Pew Research Center's 2013 survey of American Jews found that 64% of ultra-Orthodox Jews considered themselves to be politically conservative.
