{"id":4314,"date":"2026-03-18T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:58:05","slug":"video-and-blogpost-perspectives-on-war-with-iran-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2026\/03\/video-and-blogpost-perspectives-on-war-with-iran-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"(Video and Blogpost) Perspectives on War with Iran (March, 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Seth Gordon offers perspectives on the war with Iran in a Times of Israel blogpost and in a class on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Perils of War: An American View&#8221; Rabbi Gordon discusses the dangers of war as well as the danagers of avoiding war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As undesirable as war is for good and kind people, war is not the worst option; it is far worse to leave truly evil people and ideologies intact \u2014 whether slavery or the Nazis. Had it not been for the thinking that led to Neville Chamberlain\u2019s hollow claim \u201cPeace in our time\u201d (September 1938) \u2014 we would have confronted the Nazis when they were far weaker and saved those tens of\u00a0 millions of lives and treasure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-perils-of-war-an-american-view\/\">https:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-perils-of-war-an-american-view\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His class on Israel, recorded on March 17, 2026, featured an open discussion about the war.\u00a0 Video is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Perspectives on War with Iran\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VDx422mqvoo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Seth Gordon offers perspectives on the war with Iran in a Times of Israel blogpost and in a class on Israel. In &#8220;The Perils of War: An American View&#8221; Rabbi Gordon discusses the dangers of war as well as the danagers of avoiding war. As undesirable as war is for good and kind people, <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2026\/03\/video-and-blogpost-perspectives-on-war-with-iran-march-2026\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,78,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-modern-judaism","category-politics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}