Earlier this week Israel’s friend the United States, led by a man who arguably is Israel’s favorite American President of all time, issued a report that criticized Israel’s religious freedoms. The report was critical of the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate owning civil functions such as marriage, divorce and Jewish burials as well as poor bureaucratic treatment of non-Jewish spouses of Jewish Israeli citizens. It should be an alarm that within a year of America moving her Embassy to Jerusalem and officially recognizing the Israeli Golan as sovereign land, America is raising the alarm.
All Israeli citizens are complicit in the racism and bigotry of our justice system. So long as we turn a blind eye and do not question what we are told not to question, so long as we do not push back and demand more from our leaders, so long as we allow these injustices to occur daily, we are all to blame.
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The Jewish promise was that we were to be the light amongst the nations. We were to live a moral and decent existence as individuals and as a collective. We were to set examples of tolerance and redefine justice to be fair and based on laws.