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The calm before the storm.
December 8, 2021
Reform Judaism Must Remain Steadfast in Its Commitment to Zionism
Anti-Israel rabbinical students lack love and empathy for their fellow Jews.
This summer, as Hamas rained thousands of missiles on Israel, a group of American rabbinical students at non-Orthodox institutions wrote an open letter condemning the Jewish state for a variety of supposed sins. The letter formed the basis for a long report in the New York Times Magazine on the suppose “unraveling of American Zionism.” But support for Israel among American Jewry remains high. Moreover, writes Ammiel Hirsch—the rabbi of a prominent Reform synagogue in New York City—the Reform movement is committed to Zionism, for unambiguous moral and theological reasons:
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Reform Judaism Must Remain Steadfast in Its Commitment to Zionism
Anti-Israel rabbinical students lack love and empathy for their fellow Jews.
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