This Toronto rabbi says Canadian Jews must support Israel and stop criticizing her politics in public

Rabbi Daniel Korobkin leads one of Canada's largest Orthodox synagogues: Beth Avraham Yoseph, known as The BAYT, in Thornhill, Ont. In recent weeks, he has been regularly leading prayers for the victims of the escalating violence and terror attacks between Palestinians and Israelis. They come against the backdrop of growing worldwide condemnation—even by some Canadian Jewish leaders and groups—of the current plans by Israel’s new right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu to reform the Supreme Court, possibly roll back civil rights for LGBTQ citizens, the Arab population in the West Bank and non-Orthodox Jewish residents. Rabbi Korobkin has decided to speak out publicly against Israel’s vocal critics here at home. He says the country will sort itself out in due course and do the right thing, as healthy democracies do. But all the protests and negativity from the Diaspora just helps those who wish to delegitimize the State of Israel. He joins The CJN Daily ahead of Tuesday's special meeting called by UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to seek the advice of prominent rabbis and Jewish schools on forming a community strategy in response to events in Israel. What we talked about

• Read about the NIF and JSpace poll in The CJN
• Watch Rabbi Daniel Korobkin's sermon on the BAYT YouTube channel
• What Montreal-born Likud MK Dan Illouz thinks about his government’s agenda: ’Not an attack on democracy’ on The CJN Daily.

What we talked about

• Read about the NIF and JSpace poll in The CJN
• Watch Rabbi Daniel Korobkin’s sermon on the BAYT YouTube channel
• What Montreal-born Likud MK Dan Illouz thinks about his goverenment’s agenda: ‘Not an attack on democracy’ on The CJN Daily.

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