A Narrowing of Heart and Mind: The American Jewish Response to the Flotilla

by Rabbi Sharon Brous, IKAR

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/flotilla_crisis/article/a_narrowing_of_heart_and_mind_the_american_jewish_response_to_the_flotilla_/

I am certain that I am not the only person who left Sunday’s Solidarity Rally for Israel with a profound sense of unease. While I was not greeted with boos and jeers, like Peace Now’s David Pine (my speech elicited more confusion (“Wait, she’s a rabbi. Isn’t she on our side? What does she mean, ‘We can do better’?”), I was devastated by what I can only understand to be a tragic narrowing of the American Jewish heart and mind.

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