PrintThe mistake of the Reform Judaism Movement
Rabbi Marc Gellman, a prominent Reform rabbi, adds his voice to those who are decrying the left wing politicization of the Reform Judaism movement, specifically the recent call to oppose the War in Iraq.
The movement of which I am a member has just voted against a war that I support. This vote by the Union of Reform Judaism was the first vote by a major national Jewish organization or religious movement opposing the war in Iraq.
This war was and is being fought for American reasons, not Jewish reasons. However, to see this war that toppled one of Israel's fiercest enemies—an anti—Semitic dictator who sent $25,000 to the families of every jihadist who had been able to kill and maim Israeli children and other innocents—opposed by Jews is more than an act of ingratitude to this country and this president. This vote was an act of stunning and incomprehensible historical blindness.
