Jonathan Tobin explains how the ZRC was established to counteract decline in pro-Israel sentiment

In Jonathan S. Tobin’s recent featured column in JNS, he questions if Reform and Conservative Judaism support for Zionism can be revived, noting the disaffection for the Jewish state growing among Jewish liberals. He explains how the decline in pro-Israel sentiment spurred the establishment of the ZRC in 2019, with the goal to give voice to the need for Jewish leaders to stand in solidarity with Israel, rather than identify with those seeking its elimination. Continue reading at JNS…..

(Photo credits: Central Conference of American Rabbis members participate in a Kabbalat Shabbat service at Leo Baeck Education Center’s Ohel Avraham Synagogue in Haifa, Feb. 26, 2016. Credit: Leo Baeck Education Center.