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 I wouldn't be surprised if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were
thinking of Tevye these days. Tevye was, after all, a quasi-pathetic
character simply trying to make sense of a world changing far more
quickly than he might have ever imagined possible. Having granted his
daughter, Hodel, permission to marry Perchik the pauper, he wonders,
"What am I going to tell your mother?" He didn't choose Perchik, and he
doesn't really approve. But he is powerless. And when his wife
expresses her dismay, the best explanation he can offer is "It's a new
world, Golde."
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Rabbi Dr. Tony Bayfield on Parshat Pinchas. Rabbi Bayfield is Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism.