Apologies in advance for this Holy Day-length Shabbat message! Dear Friends, This week I found myself going back to a sermon I wrote almost twenty years ago. The sermon was about Israel, about misinformation, about delegitimization, and about the challenge of loving something that is imperfect. It was about the difficulty of defending Israel against lies and distortions while also refusing to pretend that every decision made by an Israeli government is wise, moral, or beyond critique. And as I read it, I realized something unsettling: while my hope for a two-state solution is further away than ever, I could [...]