Something extraordinary happened last week. More than 1,000 rabbis from across the United States, representing the full spectrum of Jewish religious practice, joined together in a national rabbinic sign-on letter to affirm a simple but profound message: the Jewish people will not stand silently by as the type of anti-Zionism espoused by public figures like Zohran Mamdani becomes normalized in American politics.

This statement, coordinated by The Jewish Majority, signifies one of the largest and fastest-growing expressions of rabbinic unity in recent memory. In less than 72 hours, it drew signatures from rabbis representing every region of the country and every political stripe. Together, they declared that attacks on Israel’s legitimacy are far more nefarious than simple foreign-policy disagreements — they are assaults on Jewish identity itself.

Over the past two........

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