Yehuda Kurtzer
“Liberal American Jews thrived in America because we cultivated a deep relationship between the vision we had of our Judaism as a liberal religion that could thrive in America, and a complementary belief in American liberalism itself.
The constitutional revolution currently underway in the Roberts court is striking a significant blow to that liberal order, first eroding personal liberty on the national right to get an abortion, and now also – in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District – on the issue of religion in the American public square. As liberal American Jews struggle to respond to this uncertainty, we find ourselves at a crossroads: do we fight for our old vision of America, a vision that is faltering? Or do we consider the history that brought us to this point, and rethink what the future of American Jewish liberalism should mean?”
Read full blog in Times of Israel.
