Controversy over Israel, sometimes strongly criticizing its policies, is not unusual in synagogues in the United States, especially those of the Reformation. The Union for Reform Judaism, an umbrella group of Reformed congregations, describe itself as a movement that “accepts and supports the fundamental goal of Zionism: the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people.” At the Westchester Reformed Temple, rabbis criticized Israel in the past. In my Rosh Hashana lecture in September, Rabbi Jonathan Blake criticized “extremists, skeptical political officials and wealthy patrons” in Israel for promoting “a grand vision of totalitarianism in...
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