Daniel Gordis argued in this 2019 conversation that Israeli and American Jews are fundamentally divided. With a new government now in place, has he been proven correct?
A model for compromise on religious issues.
How can Jewish liberals defend the Women of the Wall when they don’t believe Jews should have the right to pray in “occupied” eastern. . .
To American Jews, the Women of the Wall are struggling for human rights and women’s status. To Israelis, neither the one nor the other is under threat.
The women’s prayer protests at Jerusalem’s Western Wall have nothing to do with religious freedom, or any sane kind of feminism, or rational political protest.. . .