Free Republic

Let us look at the least-discussed crisis in American Jewish life: the yawning gap between what Jewish organizations do and what Jews actually believe. Most Americans oppose the war in Iraq. American Jews overwhelmingly oppose the war in Iraq. But apart from the Union for Reform Judaism – the organization that I serve – not a single major American Jewish organization has spoken out against the war. Indeed, it is difficult to find much evidence of serious public debate in Jewish organizational circles, let alone a statement criticizing the war. Examples abound, of course, of individual Jewish organizations that, from...