Did anybody else see this article in Monday’s New York Times - New York Rabbi Finds Friends in Iran and Enemies at Home. The rabbi attended a recent conference in Iran that, among other things, debated the Holocaust. His group believes the Holocaust has been exploited to justify the existence of Israel. It is about Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, who is the spokesperson for a small anti-Zionist group, Neturei Karta, in the New York area.

I found this story fascinating, since I never heard about Orthodox Jews (complete with hats, beards, dressed in black, etc.) who were anti-Zionists. That just goes to show that today, on the celebration of Martin Luther King, civil rights still take many forms by many different people. I suppose that injustice can happen even within communities that, on the outside, appear so homogenous.

Happy MLK Day, as it reminds us that things are often so much more complicated then they seem on face value. I suppose both silence and voice can go both ways.