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special moment
Disunity Wars, Part VII
1
Legislating morality in Israel is creating
even more inner strife.
NEIL RUBIN CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
ack in my carefree college eluding mainstream Orthodox
days, we'd sit around the groups who quickly distanced
University of Maryland themselves.
Hillel and discuss the Jew- That followed Israel's parlia-
ish world's pressing matters. ment passing the first reading of
"Thank God for the Two Orthodox a law to formally recognize
only Orthodox conversions
Arabs," we'd say.•"Without
men walk
them, the Jews would eat through the performed in Israel (codi-
fying existing practice).
one another alive."
streets of
Recently, Rabbi Ismar
In our naivete, we didn't Jerusalem.
Schorsch, chancellor of the
realize that we need not
wait for Israel's foes to falter be- Conservative movement's Jew-
fore picking at one another as my ish Theological Seminary, called
great-grandmother could pluck for an end to hegemony of Israel's
feathers off a no-longer smiling Orthodox rabbinate over religious
affairs. He also urged congre-
chicken.
And thus, with our nation- gants to not send donations to Or-
forming holiday of freedom just thodox organizations — some of
recently winding down, we find which do remarkable work in
ourselves riding the crest of an physically and spiritually feed-
unprecedented wave in the Jew- ing people.
The head of the Reform move-
ish disunity wars.
While not as violent, this wave ment's seminaries agreed. In a
is larger than the one that led to letter to Israel's government and
Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. Knesset members, Rabbi Shel-
That round was primarily politi- don Zimmerman wrote, "Do not
cal. This one slices deeply into presume that you will ever be
what we cell the Jewish people. It's welcomed again in North Amer-
ica, in our college, congregations
core question is "Who is a Jew?"
The one with the answer, of or movement."
Folks, everyone's blowing it.
course, is God. But the Supreme
One apparently hasn't spoken up Consider this:
• Israel's Orthodox parties
directly for about 2,000 years, so
we're on our own. We're doing a should understand the damage
created by legislating morality.
lousy job.
The newest flare up includes It has consistently backfired and
the declaration of a primarily ir- will again. In America, all Jews
relevant group of far right-wing have traditionally fought such ac-
Orthodox rabbis. They claim that tions; we should do the same in
Reform and Conservative Ju- Israel — and the American non-
daism is not Judaism. Sadly, Orthodox must continually seek
such drivel received widespread to explain this to their Orthodox
media dissemination, command- colleagues.
• Reform and Conservative
ing a response from all . — in-
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