Harold Jacobs, the president of the National Council of Young Israel, issued a call here last night for the religious community “to apply Torah standards to the policies and priorities of the Jewish state.”
Addressing some 500 delegates at the group’s 70th anniversary national convention, Jacobs urged the American Jewish community to mobilize so that “Israel is not forced to surrender, once again, at the peace table, what our brave boys won at such a terrible cost on the battlefield.”
Jacobs, who was re-elected to a second term as president of the National Council of Young Israel continued: “The world continued to judge Israel with a double standard, denying to her the right of self defense that every other nation enjoys. Perhaps that should not be so surprising for, after all, whoever said being Jewish, or a Jewish State, was ever supposed to be easy?” We apply a higher, Torah standard to our own personal conduct, and it is time for us, as Torah committed Jews, to offer the Torah point of view on the issues confronting Israel today.”
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