{"id":577877,"date":"2010-05-25T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2794"},"modified":"2010-05-25T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T15:10:57","slug":"yoffie-on-iran-time-to-get-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577877","title":{"rendered":"Yoffie on Iran: Time to Get Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/128174\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">strong essay in the <i xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Forward<\/i><\/a><i xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><br \/>\n<\/i>this week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urj.org\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Union for Reform Judaism<\/a> President<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/urj.org\/about\/union\/leadership\/yoffie\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Rabbi Eric Yoffie<\/a><br \/>\nsays that &#8220;the time has come for the centrist and liberal elements of the<br \/>\nAmerican Jewish community to get serious about mobilizing support against a<br \/>\nnuclear Iran.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br>He argues that:<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><\/p>\n<blockquote xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><p><i xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Their failure to do so until now<br \/>\nis somewhat of a puzzle. It may be that they have simply not recognized the<br \/>\nabsolute urgency of the situation. It may also be that they are not championing<br \/>\nthis issue because others see it as a parochial one, and American Jews do not<br \/>\nlike to be perceived as self-serving. Yet it would be a terrible mistake to<br \/>\nfall into this trap.<\/i><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a strong essay in the Forward this week, Union for Reform Judaism President Rabbi Eric Yoffie says that &#8220;the time has come for the centrist and liberal elements of the American Jewish community to get serious about mobilizing support against a nuclear Iran.&#8221; He argues that: Their failure to do so until now is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}