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The Troubled and the Committed
Liel Leibovitz
August 21, 2025

…If you’ve so much as dipped your toe in Jewish communal life this past decade or so, you know precisely who the troubled committed are. They are excellently credentialed and unimpeachably affiliated with some of our finest legacy organizations. They are rabbis and presidents and leaders of shuls Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. Some have a history of voting Republican, others are staunch Democrats. What they all have in common is that they are, well, very troubled. They’re troubled by Israel’s judicial overhaul. They’re troubled by settler violence. They’re troubled by extremist ministers in Netanyahu’s cabinet. They’re troubled by the government’s failure to negotiate with Hamas. They’re troubled by the unethical conduct of the war. They’re so troubled, in fact, and so busy presenting their troubledness as a sign of intellectual and moral sophistication and superiority, that they usually have little patience for facts. READ MORE