I'm not Jewish but I can smell bullshit. It was a pleasure to read your detailed dissection of the language used in the document to say the same old thing: us vs. them, we are special, they are not, so what if we killed them, God is cheering for our side.
I’m sorry for your disappointment. I guess all of us are having to make many choices we didn’t think we would have to make. Peace, dear teacher. I have and continue to learn so much from you. Thank you!!!
I’m with you, Rabbi. It continue to boggle the mind how — STUCK — institutional Judaism is, in forms of the past, which include— our “Jewish nation-state” — it’s both alarming and harming….
Hi Rabbi, I shared what you wrote today with my friend who became more Jewish religious recently.
I find myself as a reform Jew. To me, it’s incredibly helpful to read what you wrote & know that because I see & understand the Middle East situation as I do I’m supportive of a world that is aligned with others who see & act respectfully to others that are not Jewish.
Thank you Rami. Your steady skill at identifying hypocrisy does not disappoint. You bring that in spades. Yes, and - in short supply, a bit of דן לכף זכות.
For our reform colleagues
The desire to preserve the promise of a Zionism that envisions a Jewish State that is both safe and secure and pluralistic, just and democratic may not be a biblical vision but surely a modern evolution of our covenant with the Happening Happening.
No doubt, that vision is failing, but do deem it lost?
And the wound of October 7 is surely not as deadly a threat to Jewry as that of the Nazi holocaust, but that it broke the scab for those whose holocaust-scars had not yet healed seems to have some truth to it.
I agree, the stated aims of this endeavor seem to play with trivial symptoms and bandaids rather than confronting deep and profound causes and remedies. But let’s offer credit where credit is due, no?
I'm not Jewish but I can smell bullshit. It was a pleasure to read your detailed dissection of the language used in the document to say the same old thing: us vs. them, we are special, they are not, so what if we killed them, God is cheering for our side.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you Rabbi. Very well written and so helpful. 🕊️
I’m sorry for your disappointment. I guess all of us are having to make many choices we didn’t think we would have to make. Peace, dear teacher. I have and continue to learn so much from you. Thank you!!!
Yup, just more organized Jewish mercenary narcissism.
Can you wrestle with the deep flaws that have produced so many Epstein criminals? There is a profound greed and power lust in the theocracy.
Bless your courage Rabbi.
I’m with you, Rabbi. It continue to boggle the mind how — STUCK — institutional Judaism is, in forms of the past, which include— our “Jewish nation-state” — it’s both alarming and harming….
Well said, Rabbi. Well said.
Same, Paula. I appreciate your wisdom and clarity, Rabbi Rami.
Hi Rabbi, I shared what you wrote today with my friend who became more Jewish religious recently.
I find myself as a reform Jew. To me, it’s incredibly helpful to read what you wrote & know that because I see & understand the Middle East situation as I do I’m supportive of a world that is aligned with others who see & act respectfully to others that are not Jewish.
I love what you wrote today!
And I am very happy to belong to the humanistic shul of Beth Adam in Cincinnati Ohio.
Yup bullshit.is right...thanks Rabbi Rami
Wow! That sounds so familiar. Rather like the U.S. version of large Christian traditions.
Thank you Rami. Your steady skill at identifying hypocrisy does not disappoint. You bring that in spades. Yes, and - in short supply, a bit of דן לכף זכות.
For our reform colleagues
The desire to preserve the promise of a Zionism that envisions a Jewish State that is both safe and secure and pluralistic, just and democratic may not be a biblical vision but surely a modern evolution of our covenant with the Happening Happening.
No doubt, that vision is failing, but do deem it lost?
And the wound of October 7 is surely not as deadly a threat to Jewry as that of the Nazi holocaust, but that it broke the scab for those whose holocaust-scars had not yet healed seems to have some truth to it.
I agree, the stated aims of this endeavor seem to play with trivial symptoms and bandaids rather than confronting deep and profound causes and remedies. But let’s offer credit where credit is due, no?