As we enter this New Year, this is a time of great fear for the Jewish people. There is great fear around the safety of Israel in light of the Iran nuclear deal. There are many great fears about the safety and security of the Jewish people in a world of ever-increasing anti Semitism. Issues surrounding Israel and its policies, issues about the Jewish relationship to the Obama administration, about a two-state solution are so fraught that they have become like a poison in Jewish communal discourse. All the things we most fear are tearing the Jewish people apart. Over the past weeks, we have all witnessed rabbis and Jewish leaders of all kinds not only taking sides on the Iran deal, but rushing to the ramparts to defend their stance, and also bitterly attacking anyone who disagrees with them. On the left, I have seen vitriol against right-wing Jews like I have never seen before, lodging words like "evil" and "fascist" against them. On the right, I ...
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