This is not about you but about a line of dangerously naive policy that you now spearhead
We haven’t met, but since we share an interest in military jets — myself in watching them, yourself in flying them — we’d have lots to talk about over a drink in the Knesset cafeteria in between your duties as religious affairs minister.
Until that happens, let me explain my reason for writing: A few weeks ago, we ran a cover story in which I didn’t mince my words about the revolution you’re driving forward in everything from Israel’s kashrus to the country’s conversion and marriage systems.
“An unholy alliance of secularists such as Lapid and Lieberman, the Reform movement, and the liberal fringe of the national-religious world represented by Bennett and Kahana has taken charge,” I wrote, “that’s bent on destroying the status quo that has guaranteed Israel’s Jewish character since the days of Ben-Gurion.”
You’ll be glad to know that a number of readers took exception to lumping you — a proudly Orthodox Jew — together with the Reform movement and Avigdor Lieberman. One asked why Mishpacha regularly condemned identity politics while engaging in the same in-group / out-group dynamic when it comes to halachic issues.
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