Self-described Zionist rabbi refusing to say the prayer for the welfare of Israel doesn't make sense

Jodi Rudoren, editor in chief of the Forward, sent out in her weekly Friday newsletter:When Ansche Chesed, a Conservative synagogue in the liberal bastion of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, convenes for Shabbat services tomorrow, three familiar words will not be recited from the bimah: raishit smichat gi’ulateinu.Hebrew for “the initial sprouting of our redemption,” it’s the...

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