“No one has the privilege to act or talk as if ‘the country is doomed’"

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Jan 3, 2023 · 6m

The audio link above is to a brief excerpt of our conversation with Rabbi Seth Farber, a visionary, courageous Orthodox rabbi who has taken on the Chief Rabbinate in myriad ways. Listen to Rabbi Farber for a vision of what Judaism in the Jewish state could look like, about why the Chief Rabbis are not Zionists, and much more.

This week’s written column follows below.

On a wind-swept, mostly barren hilltop overlooking Beit Shemesh on one side and tree-covered hills on the other, we buried my mom a few weeks ago.

We buried her precisely where she’d wanted to be for the past seven years—next to…