Upon reading Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s needlessly polarizing “The Self-Delusions of Secular Jews,” I found myself incredulously checking the byline. This must be, I thought, some sort of mistake. Why would the esteemed and estimable past president of the Union for Reform Judaism...
Proud to be secular - and Jewish
Rabbi Eric Yoffie's recent broadside against 'self-deluded secular Jews' attacks exactly those very liberal values of personal autonomy and anti-absolutism with which so many American Jews, Reform Jews among them, strongly identify.
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Jacques Berlinerblau


