( JNS) Lauren Holtzblatt, a Conservative Movement spiritual leader in Washington, D.C., caused outrage at her synagogue earlier this month when she declared that American Jews need to elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States to comply with “sacred texts.”
She told Harris supporters at a Jewish Democratic Council of America meeting held on Zoom: “I could tell you that we need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris because as Jews our sacred texts tell us we need to build a world where we feed the hungry, where we care for the sick, where we love the stranger, where we guard and nurture this planet. Those are her values. That is what her policies seek to achieve.”
