The war of the Jews
<p>Today devout Jews observe Tisha B’Av, the annual fast day that marks both the destruction of Solomon’s Temple by Babylonians and of the Second Temple by the Romans (among some other calamities). In a broader sense, it is a time to reflect on how divisions among Jews begat disastrous vulnerability. Rarely has a cautionary tale been more opportune, for anger between religious and secular Jews in Israel — and by extension in the US — approaches such a boiling point that there is talk of civil war.</p>
<p>The immediate catalyst is an Israeli government that cobbled together a parliament majority based on ultra-religious parties which it is using to push through a series of authoritarian reforms that are anathema to the secular Israelis who account for almost the country’s entire economy, world-beating innovation and military prowess.</p>
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