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Yosef Blau, author of an Orthodox rabbis’ letter calling out Israel, responds to his critics

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Yosef Blau, a prominent spiritual figure within Modern Orthodoxy, has made waves with his open letter, "A Call for Moral Clarity, Responsibility, and a Jewish Orthodox Response in the Face of the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasHumanitarian AidJewish ValuesSettler ViolenceReligious ZionismModern OrthodoxyOrthodox RabbisGaza CrisisYosef Blau

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"This week Blau was back in his office at Y.U.s Upper Manhattan campus, where he still has a volunteer role counseling students when he is not at his new home in Jerusalem."
New York, United States
"The media treated the letter as a tipping point in the internal Jewish dismay over the war in Gaza Blau said he was stunned that the New York Times wrote about it."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in a non-Hasidic Orthodox family, Blau attended the Yeshiva University High School for Boys when it was located in Brooklyn."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"The letter forthrightly condemned Hamas, but took the Israeli government to task for its halting response to what most of the world sees as a hunger crisis in Gaza."

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