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DELUSIONAL ZIONISM NOW ON SUPER STEROIDS! Unhinged, obsessive loathing of Israel is corrupting US values<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City delivers a speech at the synagogue, May 27, 2026. (Courtesy\/Lenny Medina\/RetroLenz Photography)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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NEW YORK \u2014 Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, a leading voice in the US Reform community, in his Yom Kippur sermon on Monday called on Jews to hedge their support for politicians, urged young Jews to take leadership roles amid rising hostility in the US, and warned that hatred of Israel was corrupting the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy advice to the Jewish community is to support only politicians who support us and our liberal vision for America. Do not give to organizations that in the past may have allied with us, but so betrayed us after October 7,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hirsch is a leader in the Reform movement in North America and the senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan, one of the city\u2019s most prominent Reform institutions.<\/p>\n

He has consistently pushed for continued attachment to Israel and opposed anti-Zionist activity in recent years, as the Reform community, the largest denomination in the US, has contended with discrimination, anti-Zionist activism and hostile politics.<\/p>\n

In his Yom Kippur speech, he drew a continuity between historical persecution of Jews and contemporary discrimination, saying, \u201cTo be a Jew is to be part of a nation that others seek to harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile pervasive anti-Jewish hostility is not new, it is new to us. We grew up in what has been described as the \u2018Golden Age\u2019 of American Jewry,\u201d he said, according to a transcript shared with The Times of Israel before the speech. \u201cIt is this clear and obvious change that has so unnerved us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jews are targeted in hate crimes far more than any other group in New York City, with at least 229 confirmed antisemitic hate crimes so far this year, according to NYPD data.<\/p>\n