In 1918, rabbis in Odessa came together to participate in the most unusual of Jewish experiences: an excommunication. They made the determination that Jews who had participated in the Bolshevik Revolution committed an act so egregious, so counter to Judaism, that they had to be removed from the community in the most binding of ways.
Whether or not the validity of this excommunication still stands the test of time (although given how much of anti-Zionist rhetoric is straight out of the USSR, I would argue that it does), one has to consider whether or not there is a modern-day example of an ideological sin that would irrevocably put one outside of the Jewish community, and, to be provocative, I want to offer an opinion: perhaps Jewish anti-Zionists have put themselves outside of the pale of acceptable Jewish opinions.
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