One of the loudest voices at my shul for stuff like getting us to start saying the prayer for medinat yisrael and other ways of making us into a more explicitly Zionist space posted to the shuls slack about the hostages at like 3pm on shabbos. Not breaking news, just continuing a conversation that started on Friday
Idk. I try not to judge people for their level of observance, but this just feels so indictive of this kind of approach, a centering of Zionism in lieu of centering halakha or tradition. Turning to ethnic pride while discarding the things that have traditionally held us together. To spend so much energy arguing for changing our space while not even being bashful about breaking shabbos in front of an Orthodox community indicates such a disregarding and disrespectfullness for what the rest of us are choosing to center. It grinds my gears! Really steams my hams!
