Response to "When Rabbis Politicize the High Holy Days"

Finally, someone has the acumen to fault liberal learning religious leaders for their political machinations.

Political discourse should never be an excuse of individuals to excuse themselves from making their own lives and the lives of friends and family better. We may not have it within ourselves to change the world, but we can change ourselves, and tending our own garden will have a much greater salutary effect than lecturing the earthly powers-that-be.

I share Mr. Prager's condescending critique of liberal Rabbis who evince very little courage demanding liberal reform before the herds of liberal-minded congregants in their assemblies. The same sickening sycophancy occurs in all left-leaning religious establishments, not just among the Jews.

"If Judaism and liberalism are identical, who needs Judaism?" Right on! Liberalism, if nothing else, is a manufactured, man-centered religion, espousing the failed notion that people are basically good, that with the right amount of state intervention and government tinkering, we can make the world a better place.

We are called to be holy, set apart from a dying world, not to become ingratiated with it. Every religious leader, no matter what the dictates of his faith, must persuade others to the same.