We need to resist recurrent efforts by some Jews to define what is kosher for other Jews to say and do -- at the moment, about Gaza.
The most important and most disappointing effort to do this is by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union of Reform Judaism. He attacked J Street for urging a cease-fire -- an immediate end to the bombings, to rocket attacks by Hamas against Israel, and to the Israeli blockade of food, fuel, and medicines from entering Gaza.
I urge our readers and members to click to the J Street website and make a contribution of $36 or more. (This number is in Hebrew numerology the symbolic affirmation of two lives – in this case, Israelis and Palestinians.)
At that URL, you will find a space called "In honor of." I suggest that if your sense of humor leans that way, you fill it in with "In Honor of Rabbi Eric Yoffie."