{"id":215,"date":"2007-01-05T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/01\/problem-is-not-protesting.html"},"modified":"2007-01-05T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T14:56:00","slug":"problem-is-not-protesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/01\/problem-is-not-protesting.html","title":{"rendered":"The Problem is Not Protesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">My problem with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/01\/orthodoxy-american-jewrys-china.html\">Rabbi Stern\u2019s  comments<\/a> is that, while acknowledging the propensity for violence among the  ultra-Orthodox, he dismisses it as a relatively minor phenomena in comparison to  extremist violence by Muslims and Christians (though I am not sure of what  recent Christian violence he is referring to unless it is the Serb slaughter of  the Croats over a decade ago). In a world of rising anti-Semitism, I can  understand his defensiveness. However, I would find it more commendable if he  condemned such violence without apology or defensiveness, tried to uncover why  it is that support for such violence is spreading within Orthodoxy, and why  moderate Orthodox leaders like him are not campaigning passionately and actively  against it. It is what we hope from Muslin religious leaders. Ultimately, it is  only the willingness of religious leaders to condemn the violence of their  co-religionists that helps stem the tide of the spread of s uch ha tred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">The  passing this week of Teddy Kolleck, former mayor of Jerusalem who spent his life  building a city that showed respect and tolerance for different religious  traditions and perspectives, is a sad reminder of how far we are from the  dream of a Jerusalem at peace and the ability to build a world in which we  share a mutual respect for our differences engendered by realizing we worship  the same God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My problem with Rabbi Stern\u2019s comments is that, while acknowledging the propensity for violence among the ultra-Orthodox, he dismisses it as a relatively minor phenomena in comparison to extremist violence by Muslims and Christians (though I am not sure of what recent Christian violence he is referring to unless it is the Serb slaughter of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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