…There really is here a civil war, a truly civil war in that there is no bloodshed. It is a war of ideas and identity. As Superman fought daily for “Truth, Justice and the American way,” so Israel, the children of Israel in the Land of Israel, war with one another everyday over what it means to be a Jew, what it means to be an Israeli.

It really is, or it seems, a war without end that has been waged every year since the birth of this people at Mt. Sinai, where, as soon as Moses was given the Ten Commandments, they built a golden calf, an idol, when even as far back as their patriarch Avraham, Moses’s great grandfather’s great grandfather, entered history at war with idolatry.

As soon as their leader Moses was given the Ten Commandments, they were at it, doing the opposite of what they had been commanded in the second commandment that prohibits idol worship, so common among the human race. The Jews were commanded in effect to be different…