Alon Gratch writes March 31, 2015:
At my son’s bar mitzvah, which took place a few years ago at a Conservative synagogue outside New York City, the rabbi delivered a sermon on the Six Day War, declaring it “Israel’s finest hour.” As he spoke, my brother, an Israeli businessman in his fifties, stood up and yelled, “Rabbi, I object to these statements.”
As the rabbi tried to talk him down, my wife—a gracious, well-mannered American—turned to my brother and said, “If you don’t stop this I’m going to kill you!”
Without missing a beat, he responded, “Some causes are worth dying for.”
