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Rabbi Daniel Gordis’s writing has brought tears to the eyes of many readers, but his latest column makes me want to cry because it implies that I “don’t get” Jewish history and the Jewish state. When an American friend of his complained that Jews worldwide will come under fire for the flotilla attack on Monday, Rabbi…
The Twitterizing of the news has reached a crisis point in the Israeli-Palestinian forum. For a long time, the Jewish community in the US has viewed the conflict in black-and-white: The elders have decided that Jewish solidarity necessitates categorical defense of Israel, and they treat any deviation from the institutional line as a threat. There is no…