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Stop Bemoaning the "Death of Israeli Democracy"
(Mosaic) Daniel Gordis - Daniel Gordis, an American rabbi who left his pulpit to live in Israel as an author, teacher, and university administrator, has little sympathy with the seemingly incessant torrent of woe-is-us columns penned by American communal leaders declaring Israel-as-they-knew-it is dead and bemoaning the fact that they can no longer support the Jewish state. What does it say about your worldview when the country that you did decide to wash your hands of is the only country on the planet whose express purpose is saving the Jewish people? An election goes a way you don't like and you announce that you're done?