Something new, it wasn’t always like this. Increasingly in Israel today, the High Holidays are marked by rocks, riots, violence, teargas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets as Palestinian youth react to politically provocative visits by rightwing Jewish activists who are busy at work trying to turn the Temple Mount into a Jewish prayer space. Throwing rocks at his car, Palestinian stone throwers killed an Israeli Jew the other day on his way home from a holiday dinner. Casting a acrid pall over something so beautiful, this kind of religious activism is like throwing oil on fire. Why this push over the last several years to secure the Temple Mount as a Jewish prayer space? What good does it do Judaism or the Jewish people? If sovereignty means anything, it’s that the sovereign power is the responsible party for protecting law and order and human life. Prime Minister Netanyahu promises to the world to…