U.K.'s Rabbi Sacks set on repairing the divisions between Israel and world Jewry

[NewsGuy]

From Haaretz:

Visiting Israel today reminds British chief rabbi Prof. Jonathan Sacks of the Second Temple period, when Jewish sovereignty collapsed for the second time. He finds the same kind of factionalism present now, and he is worried...

Sacks has identified another change within world Jewry: "the exposure of a certain ambivalence about Israel" in the Diaspora. Like many others, he cites the Six-Day War as a time when it was easy for Jews around the world to identify with Israel. But now that the Western media portrays Israel as Goliath, Sacks says there is no doubt that some sectors of the community have become more ambivalent about supporting Israel. He was not willing to elaborate on the degree of ambivalence that applies in each sector, nor on the factors that affect this dynamic.

[Chaim]

The Jewish Liberals have always followed the media, look at President Clinton and his success. These same people would have the rest of the world's Jews believe that peace is possible, without offering any support to backing it up.

My case in point: The first group to announce that it was not sending any Jews to Israel due to the violence was the UAHC, claiming they would not make a political statement with children. The irony here of course is that they did make a statement, that they lack the will to support the State of Israel.

The irony here is that the President of the UAHC had originally scheduled a press release the day before the Tel-Aviv bombing to condemn the Israeli government in its handling of the violence in Israel. It was only after the deaths of 21 people in the terrorist attack that they changed their announcement to support Israel.

Is it any wonder that the UAHC continues to have its membership declining?