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发帖数: 29846 | 1 April 23, 2011
By Stella Paul
This week is Passover, the season of deliverance, and I'm praying for
deliverance from America's failed Jewish leadership. As Jews confront the
most dangerous era since World War II, whom are we stuck with for leaders?
A clueless bunch of mini-Pharaohs, strutting around proclaiming their moral
superiority, blissfully unaware the Jewish people's mortal enemies are
pulling down their pants and laughing at them.
Cataloguing their collective acts of evasion, cowardice, appeasement, and
surrender is not for the faint of heart, but, luckily, I'm fortified by
matzo balls and ready to rock. At the Passover Seder, Jews recite Dayenu, a
prayer listing the many blessings bestowed by the Almighty, each of which
would have sufficed (Dayenu) in its own right. Here, alas, is a woeful
Dayenu of the failures of the American Jewish establishment. Can anyone
tell me why these preening big shots haven't been forced to resign in shame?
Why, in God's name, are our purported "leaders" still collecting cushy
paychecks when their credibility is bankrupt?
If they only had allowed a storm of anti-Semitism to rise in the West, and
hate crimes against American Jews to skyrocket to unprecedented heights,
while they declined to muster even a listless response -- Dayenu -- they
would have failed.
If they only had stood aside, shrugging, while America's college campuses
became battlegrounds in the war against Israel, where anti-Semitic lies were
force-fed to America's next generation of leaders, and Jewish students were
intimidated and taught self-hatred and alienation from their own identities
-- Dayenu -- they would have failed.
If they only had refused to educate the Jewish people about the growing
threat from radical Islam, and remained silent about the long, tragic
history of Jews forced to live as oppressed dhimmis under Muslim rule, as
mandated by Koranic law -- Dayenu -- they would have failed.
If they only had cowered when American Jewish institutions came under mortal
assault, when Muslim fanatics slaughtered helpless women in a Jewish
administrative office in Seattle, and travelers at the El Al airport counter
in Los Angeles, and tirelessly plotted to firebomb synagogues in Chicago,
Nashville, and New York -- Dayenu -- they would have failed.
If they only had made a false idol out of "interfaith dialogue," recklessly
pursuing Muslim "partners" without bothering to investigate with whom they
were "dialoguing," and giving dangerous anti-Semites the official Jewish
seal of approval -- Dayenu -- they would have failed.
If they only had declared their mission was to take dwindling Jewish
resources and devote them to helping Muslims build mosques in America, for
the sake of fighting the mythical sin of "Islamophobia," all the while
ignoring the anti-Semitism destined to spew forth from those mosques --
Dayenu -- they would have failed.
If they only had attacked those few brave critics who brought forth
objective facts about their Muslim "partners in dialogue," tried to shout
them into silence, acted as false witnesses against them, and insulted and
bullied them with their own self-proclaimed moral superiority -- Dayenu --
they would have failed.
If they only had descended into the pit of outright collaboration,
privileging the lying narrative of our murderers over the truth, roping
impressionable young Jews into meeting with terrorists, rallying for them,
and taking up their cause -- Dayenu -- they would have failed.
If they only had turned their back on the land of Israel and our brethren
there, indicting Israel for every perceived imperfection and loaning their
prestige to those who would endanger our homeland -- Dayenu -- they would
have failed.
If they only had desecrated the transcendent majesty of Judaism by turning
it into an attack wing of leftist politics, replacing the Jewish mission of
covenantal faithfulness to God with partisan faithfulness to a progressive
utopia -- Dayenu -- they would have failed.
To be a Jew in America in 2011 is to feel the hot breath of history on one's
neck. The day is short, the hour is late, and the Jewish establishment is
merrily munching matzo and cashing their paychecks. With no Moses in sight
to lead us from our mounting perils, maybe the time has come for each of us
who treasures liberty to act as Moses in our own communities. Next year,
may we meet in freedom.
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