JERUSALEM POST
The fracturing of liberal Judaism over Jewish particularism
by Amiel Hirsch
May 27, 2021

It has been unfolding slowly for decades, but the recent war between Israel and Hamas highlighted and accelerated our crisis. We are breaking along the same fissures as a century ago. The fault line is, as it was back then, our sense of Jewish identity. Do we belong to the Jewish people? Are we anchored in Jewish particularism – an identity rooted in Jewish peoplehood – and from there, do we pursue Jewish universal values of social repair? Or are we Kantian universalists who pray in Hebrew, and who regard the insistence on Jewish distinctiveness as an embarrassment at best or, at worst, an impediment to and a contradiction of universal values? READ MORE