The Passover Tradition and Bernie Sanders
But secular, progressive Judaism is, itself, a kind of religion. While dispensing with the God of the alte velt —if the Enlightenment didn’t kill him, the Holocaust certainly did—leftist Jews of the 20th century maintained a prophetic, religious zeal for justice.
Some of this came from within the Jewish tradition, both as a matter of Biblical injunction (“Do not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger as you were slaves in Egypt,”
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