American Judaism
Seven decades of Tradition.
Borne with grace, barukh hashem.
He wrote about the greatest story of all.
High on flowers, low on tradition.
A religious problem, not a demographic one.
Not alike.
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And American Jews needn’t be hypocrites.
A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.
And how much does its ideology matter?
To avoid that fate, rabbis and synagogues might begin by acknowledging where and how Judaism differs, and proceed from there.
Today’s liberal Judaism may or may not have struck the right balance between tradition and change; but that’s a conversation worth having.
Unless they feel personally welcome, non-traditional Jews won’t care to own anything at all of the tradition.
What happens when, once a year, the urge to accommodate every consumer fashion meets massive Jewish cultural illiteracy?