US rabbi blames Netanyahu's 'right wing messianism' for the end of 'Jewish Golden Age'

A leading US Reform rabbi has blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's “right-wing messianism and West Bank lawlessness” for fuelling opposition to Israel and rising settler violence in the West Bank as a factor contributing to the end of "The Golden Age of American Jewry". “We need to be honest with ourselves: We have entered a new era,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said in a speech focused on the US midterm election results. “The Golden Age of American Jewry that defined the years when most older millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers grew up and established careers and families is over.”