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Widening gap between left and right

IT’S AMAZING these days how controversial Israel has become. It’s hard for me to watch. Like a dear friend who is being thrown under the bus, I admit I take it personally. I remember living in Israel through the Gaza disengagement in 2005 when, due to government policy, thousands of Israelis, mostly a right-wing demographic, were displaced from their homes, their communities destroyed. The wound of this displacement, the sense of exile that these Gush Katif communities felt, ran deep. In fact, I recall on the following Shavuot a tikkun leil learning program at a religious Zionist synagogue. It was dedicated to studying sources that would help the displaced cope with their sense that Zionism had failed them, or with how to proceed in realigning their Zionistic […]
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Tehilla Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park


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