The Jews are complaining … again

(JNS) — I have a confession. I know—I’m not Catholic, and you’re not priests, but I’ll share it with you anyway.

Each year, when we come to last week’s Torah reading of Beshalach, I am guilty of passing judgment on the people of Moses’s generation. And over the years, many congregants have asked me the same question. They were eyewitnesses to the greatest biblical miracles of all time. They saw the 10 plagues strike Egypt and completely spare the Israelites. They experienced the Exodus from Egypt, a superpower where not a single slave had ever escaped in history. They personally participated i...