The divide between progressive American Jews and Israel is widening
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Richard Kuper
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There is a growing divide between progressive American Jews and Israel.
For instance, the Reform movement, embracing around 35% of American Jews, has just rejected a donation from the Jewish National Fund alleging that the charity tricked the movement by buying and then hiding land purchases in the West Bank.
At the J Street conference in Washington last weekend Rabbi Ayelet Cohen of the New Israel Fund spoke about this growing rift. Her speech is reposted below.
This article was originally published by Mondoweiss on Thu 31 Oct 2019. Read the original here.
American Jews are sick and tired of Israel, says leading rabbi
The J Street conference in Washington last weekend had a panel on the growing rift between American and Israeli Jews at which Rabbi Ayelet Cohen of the New Israel Fund, a liberal Zionist organization, said American Jews are losing interest in Israel, have “shame” and disappointment about Israel, are tired of fighting over Israel, and rabbis are quietly dropping Israel from Hebrew school curricula and no one’s noticing. Here’s her full opening statement.
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A very interesting point of view from this leading American Rabbi. I’m so glad people are waking up and watching, listening and learning.