Silence on Israel loses the next generation

by Rabbi Scott Perlo

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/silence_on_israel_loses_the_next_generation_20120104/

American Jewish organizations have, over the last decades, struck a Faustian bargain regarding Israel. In return for the façade of unity and to avoid controversy, we have organizationally either stayed silent about Israel or addressed it in only the most idyllic strokes. As a result of this lack of investment, the American Jewish-Israel relationship has fallen on tough times, and Americans have lost the “why” of the State of Israel.

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