Recently, in these pages and elsewhere, I’ve read many rabbis fretting over whether to take a public stand on what they call political issues. Despite everything that has come to pass, apparently, much of the American rabbinate has an October 6 mentality. The Jewish community is not going back, and I see no future where the anti-Zionists reconcile with the Zionists. The schism has already happened, and it’s not about politics, it’s about the survival of our way of life in the diaspora.
“The Torah commands lo titgodedu, traditionally interpreted to mean, don’t fragment yourselves into factions,” one rabbi wrote, according to JTA. “I fear this happening to Jews. Frankly, I fear it more than I fear an anti-Zionist mayor.”
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