Immediately after the 1967 Six Day War, Rabbi Jack Cohen -- a leading Reconstructionist leader who served for decades as the director of the Hillel of Hebrew University and who has lived in Israel for the last 50 years -- wrote an essay calling for Israel to immediately withdraw from the West Bank. His reasoning was based on the belief that by not doing so, Israel's ideals would be compromised because such an occupation could only lead to a painfully problematic relationship to the inhabitants of the occupied area.
I guess that's what happens when you 'reconstruct' Judaism, making it something unrepresentative of authentic Jewish nationalist essence.
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Yeah, I attended a "Reconstructionist" synagogue in Denver and was dismayed when the rabbi stated that "We believe the Jews are not the chosen people". I won't be back, sorry.
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