Friday, October 9, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Daniel Gordis: No Right to Exhaustion - 'We don't know each other, though I've known of you and your work for some time. Like many others, I recently read your "How I'm Losing My Love For Israel" in the Forward. Because you write so articulately, and because your column has attracted such widespread attention, I'm taking the liberty of responding. The truth is, you and I agree about a lot. We're both worried about some of what's happening to Israeli society. We're both tired of all the equivocating (though probably for different reasons). We'd both love some real leadership around here. We’d both like peace. And we’re both exhausted. That exhaustion is the first reason you give for that fact that your "love [for Israel] is starting to wane." But frankly, Jay, when you began to write about your exhaustion, I began to lose you. For, I have to confess, I don't see the connection between exhaustion and losing love, or between exhaustion and committing oneself to what's right and just...' [Great read.]
A must read.
Everybody, please take a few minutes, it's worth it. This is a great piece.