JEWISH WEEK
The Importance Of Drawing Lines
by Jonathan Tobin
October 24, 2017

There’s nothing that offends contemporary American Jewry more than a demand to draw a line that will define who is in and who is outside of the community. But if there is anything that we can learn from the series of controversies involving the Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society it is that try as we might to avoid doing it, sometimes lines must be drawn. The problems began with criticism of the appointment of UCLA historian David Myers as the president and CEO of the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. Myers is a man of the left, a supporter of J Street and the New Israel Fund, and that prompted a furious response from the Zionist right. As Jewish Week editor Gary Rosenblatt noted in a column, some of the accusations were inaccurate. READ MORE

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