TWO RABBIS AND SOME UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS
The present dialogue between Rabbis Pesach Wolicki and Rafi Eis is very interesting for a number of reasons. The position of the new British regime by mouth of its Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband ( link ) and the reaction of the Netanyahu government, is just the fascinating start of the conversation. The Rabbis go on to talk about the founding of the state of Israel, the history of the West Bank and the extraordinary status of Jerusalem, which is geopolitically without precedent. For the ancients the last question would have been self evident, but it has become controversial since the onset of secular Western Enlightenment: what is a Jew?
