At Beth El, a New Jersey Synagogue, a Deep Divide Over Israel | The New Yorker Highlight

She continued, “I also want to tell you how my heart breaks over the civilian deaths and tragic suffering in Gaza, the shattering destruction of Palestinian homes and cities. I want to denounce settler violence in the West Bank and the rhetoric from far-right government ministers who talk about annexation of the West Bank and the expulsion of Gazans. . . . But if I tell you these things, all of which I also believe, some of you will stop listening and decide that I’m no longer your rabbi.” The conversation about Israel was “ripping our community apart,” Buchdahl observed. She described her effort to navigate the fault lines as “the most painful experience of my rabbinic life.”