Description: Opinions and Unbridled Scrutiny of Those Within the Jewish Community Whose Actions are Anything But Reflective of Judaism and Yiddishkeit
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This post is the entire text of a Forward article , being reprinted in its entirety without permission of the Forward . I believe it to be of utter urgency; and if the Forward tells me to take it down, I will oblige.
The great irony here is that ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders have endorsed the elections of the very officials, including Donald Trump, who made the destruction of 50 years of US legal precedent regarding a woman’s right to an abortion possible. Many liberal and secular Jews saw this coming. That the ultra-Orthodox religious community and its leaders, including Agudath Israel, among many did not have the foresight to understand that their support of conservative leaders would eventually come to bite us all, i