n class="dropcap">The demolition of a statue, the withdrawal of public adulation for the erstwhile hero the statue commemorates, has echoes of a fundamental Jewish principle: the injunction against graven images. In religious school, I learned the story of young Abram—not yet renamed Abraham—smashing the idols his father sold and reproaching his father’s customers for worshiping them. It was taught along with the stories of Adam and Eve and Noah’s Ark (although, in fact, it’s not actually in the Torah, but in a rabbinic midrash, or commentary).Read Full Article »
