Better Jews. The Moral Vanity of Israel’s Leftist Jewish Critics

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Judaism has never been defined by how much we suffer. It is not a religion of martyrdom.
(Adam Levick of CIF Watch) (h/t Safed-Tzfat)
Ben Murane, an American Jew and head of New Generations for the left-wing lobbying group New Israel Fund, recently wrote an essay, under his blogging pseudonym KungFuJew, titled, "Reinterpreting Jewish communal service".
The essay attempts to "reinterpret" Jewish communal service in universal terms and represents the quintessential guilt of liberal diaspora Jews over Jewish particularism.
This recurring tendency of Jews, such as Murane, to pay greater attention to their own moral performance than to the necessities of survival is a trait which Ruth Wisse characterizes as “moral solipsism”. In displaying the resilience necessary to survive in exile, many Jews have come to fetishize weakness, and believe that they could pursue their mission as a “light unto the nations” on a purely moral plane. (MORE PAIN)

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