Over the past few weeks, I’ve received lots of advice about whom to support in the recent Democratic primaries. An acquaintance in the Orthodox community told me: “Rabbi, I don’t mean to ‘Jew-splain’ this to you, but Steve Irwin is pro-Israel and Summer Lee is not.” It’s been national news that AIPAC spent millions of dollars on mendacious attack ads against Summer Lee. I’m not writing to endorse her or any other candidate. My argument is about the very notion of putting Israel first when electing our leaders. There is a pervasive assumption that the only one way to vote...