Israel and the Diaspora must stand united

A couple of months ago, I had the privilege of arranging and participating in a delegation of leading rabbis from the Religious Zionist movement in Israel to Jewish communities in Europe, which included visits to Paris , Munich, and Vienna, as well as high-level meetings with Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), and Dr. Ariel Muzicant, president of the European Jewish Congress.

The group was led by Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, head of the most prominent yeshiva of this movement. More recently, I attended a conference of European religious Zionist rabbis in Paris, where Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, a distinguished halachic authority (religious judicial expert), made his first-ever trip outside Israel.

These unprecedented visits were born from an incr