The Metro: A metro Detroit rabbi says this isn’t the time for difficult political conversations
War in the Middle East has increased tensions in metro Detroit. Rabbi Aaron Bergman shares his observations from within the Jewish community.
Rabbi Aaron Bergman.
About one month ago, Israel and America struck Iran. Now, Israel has enmeshed itself in more violence.
In Iran, about 1500 people have been killed. Over 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon. Settler violence against Palestinians has been ratcheted up in the West Bank. And, in Israel, as of one week ago, a dozen Israelis had been killed from Iranian air strikes.
Israel says it is attacking the Iranian regime and Hezbollah in Lebanon to remove existential threats from the region.
In the midst of all this, a man drove a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. The attacker killed himself before he hurt anyone at the synagogue besides one security officer. He was grieving family that had been killed in Lebanon by Israel.
How are metro Detroit Jews processing this moment? And, what do conversations about domestic and foreign politics look like at this time?
Aaron Bergman is a rabbi at Adat Shalom, a synagogue in Farmington Hills. He spoke about all this with producer Sam Corey.
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