Betrayal

The Failure of American Jewish Leadership

By: Charles Jacobs, Avi Goldwasser

Narrated by: Armin Brott

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

American Jews are under assault, their institutions under siege, and their leaders are failing to protect them due to conflicting ideological loyalties and a deficit of courage.

“Betrayal loudly rings the alarm for a somnolent American Jewry. Read it and wake others.” (Daniel Pipes, President of the Middle East Forum)

“If you think it’s time for the American Jewish community, its organizations, and its leadership, to have an honest, challenging, vigorous debate about where we are going—and what mistakes we have made—then read this important, illuminating, sometimes depressing, but ultimately inspiring, book.” (Gil Troy, Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University, and editor of the three-volume set Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings)

This book—perhaps the first devoted to this topic—documents the devastating failure of the Jewish establishment, including its leaders and major donors, to defend and protect American Jews as anti-Semitism surges across the country. It is a collection of essays by writers who care about the welfare of the Jewish community. Some of the essayists are prominent, some are local activists engaged in ongoing battles to defend the community. Some essays offer analyses, others give disturbing, in-depth accounts of the failures themselves. All of them rebuke the Jewish leaders and institutions who have abandoned their responsibilities. While Jewish leaders cling to a utopian belief system which comports with their naïve political ideology, the ugly reality their mindset ignores only worsens. Betrayed by their leaders, the essayists argue, American Jews require new, strong leadership.

The book itself is an expanded version of a collection published in the Spring 2022 issue of White Rose Magazine, a publication which promotes classical liberalism in the face of political extremism and is named in honor of the anti-Nazi White Rose resistance movement.

Featuring Essays by:
Jonathan S. Tobin
Richard A. Landes
Joshua Block
Rebecca Sugar
Caroline B. Glick
Naya Lekht
Richard Kronenfeld
Bruce D. Abramson
Thane Rosenbaum
Morton A. Klein
Alan M. Dershowitz
Rabbi Cary Kozberg
M. Zuhdi Jasser
William A. Jacobson
Johanna E. Markind
Rebecca G. Schgallis
Karen D. Hurvitz
Joanne Bregman
Lauri B. Regan
Dr. Amy Rosenthal
Josh Ravitch
Henry Srebrnik
Ben Poser

©2023 Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser (P)2023 Post Hill Press

Very important book

I enjoyed reading this and am dismayed by the current state of Jewish leadership in our country. We would be better off without any leaders at all.

As a Rabbi, this should be required reading

Every contributor said the quiet part about what's lacking in Jewish leadership, out loud. The Passover campus takeovers in America after the High Holy Day Hamas attacks on Israel only make this case painfully more urgent.