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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-reckoning-for-the-reform-movement/
Defending Israel and the Jewish People Is Part of "Repairing the World"
(Times of Israel) Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch - Much of the Jewish world expresses Jewish identity through a fierce commitment to the Jewish people and Israel, the most eloquent expression of Jewish peoplehood in our times. We cannot succumb to those who preach a false philosophy of Jewish universalism under the guise of a sweeping, self-righteous, sanctimonious and suffocating misunderstanding of tikkun olam - "repairing the world." Isn't defending Israel and the Jewish people also tikkun olam? The reaction to Oct. 7, and every day since, revealed the rot inside our most cherished Western institutions. Increasingly we are living a surreal reality. More Jews are massacred in one day than on any day since the Holocaust, and immediately protests erupt against Jews. Israel is accused of genocide, while the genocidal forces that launched this war are forgiven or forgotten. The writer, senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, served as executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America.