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The Jewish Obligation to Save America
Liel Leibovitz
July 1, 2026

“America is over.” That, with some variation, is the message I’ve been getting from friends and colleagues ever since last week’s Democratic primaries elevated a host of radicals to prominence. In WhatsApp groups and text messages and long, doleful emails, intelligent, soulful people wrote to declare that the experiment that had begun on these shores 250 years ago was now at an end. America, they lament, is obviously on its way to becoming another Spain, Poland, Ukraine—just “another shithole country where Jews used to live…This covenantal nation, put here by God to spread the light of freedom to a benighted world, is a nation always busy being born. When it first emerged, 250 years ago this summer, it did so when a band of brave men decided to rise to the occasion and make new proclamations that put them in conflict with the mightiest military force on earth. They prevailed, and by doing so, forever changed the course of history. READ MORE