The war of the Jews

The uninvolved may not fully understand how heated the Jewish cultural war is becoming. My religious friend and I would like to help fix it.

Today devout Jews observe Tisha B’Av, the annual fast day that marks both the destruction of Solomon’s Temple by Babylonians and of the Second Temple by the Romans (among some other calamities). In a broader sense, it is a time to reflect on how divisions among Jews begat disastrous vulnerability. Rarely has a cautionary tale been more opportune, for an…