In the wake of the recent NYC primary results, Rabbi Weinblatt argues in The Times of Israel that the moment has come for a reckoning within the Democratic Party. Drawing on James Carville’s call for a schism, I make the case that the party must separate itself from the Democratic Socialists, whose platform I see as not only anti-Israel and antisemitic, but anti-American — and a threat to the political home American Jews have known for generations.
Time for a Divorce: Should the Democratic Party Be Broken Up? — My Op-Ed in The Times of Israel
