Jill Jacobs

But the Messiah is a Torah scholar, and what happens in the temple is the exploration of knowledge and wisdom, fostering the universal practice of ethics.

Jill Jacobs comments that it's nevertheless still hard for us to take.

"Most contemporary Jews," she writes, "who extol the virtu- value of Tikkun Olam, certainly do not understand this term as a mandate to impose worship of the Jewish God on all the other peoples.

However, they would be amenable to a process of Tikkun Olam that favors voluntary acceptance of a world court, a world government, and the universalization of the ethical laws of the Torah, which may in fact be what the vision is." So let me ask you a question.

The bill failed to narrowly define the phrase critics warned would disproportionately affect Jewish philanthropic organizations sponsoring humanitarian programs operating over the Green Line, including volunteer ambulance corps and trauma counselors assisting Jews and Arabs indiscriminately.

Even Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who spent years challenging settler funding, warned its ambiguity might ensnare groups supporting victims of terror.

Democratic Party leaders in both chambers promised the bill would never reach a vote.

Mamdani's allies reintroduced it this May.