On the JNS Top Story podcast this week, where I was once again standing in for Jonathan Tobin who was away, I had a fascinating conversation with Rabbi Cary Kozberg from Ohio.
Rabbi Kozberg is a Reform rabbi who has concluded that the Reform movement is leading the destruction of America’s Jewish community. He is direct and unsparing in his analysis of its embrace of the “social justice agenda” which he says runs directly counter to Jewish principles.
He believes that the various “progressive” denominations in America’s Jewish community are creating a modern equivalent of Hellenism, the embrace of Greek paganism and decadence by the Jews of antiquity which divided, weakened and ultimately helped destroy their ancient kingdom of Judea. His religious and philosophical journey has caused him to wrestle not just with America’s “progressive” Jewish leaders but with himself.
You can watch the podcast here.
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