…out of the trauma and tragedy of the earlier decades of the 20th century, Jews redefined their image and reconstructed their roles in the post-World War II period. This represented a point in time when[…]
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“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”
The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required to attend to it cements his bona fides in making this argument, which is the strongest I know against the moral[…]
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“By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage to find scraps of anti-Semitism, Jewish pundits are misunderstanding and misrepresenting Trumpism itself”
By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage to find scraps of anti-Semitism, Jewish pundits are misunderstanding and misrepresenting Trumpism itself. Because, here’s the most important thing: It is[…]
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“The Jewish mix of particular and universal is not easy to figure out, for Jews or anyone else”
Up to modernity, Jews and non-Jews lived within boundaries, well defined from within and without. With the fall of those boundaries in the rise of nation-states and the dismantling of traditional Jewish communities, the latent[…]
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“…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s world is between internationalists (who they call “globalists”) and nationalists”
…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s world is between internationalists (who they call “globalists”) and nationalists. Internationalists believe in universal principles like human rights, international law and[…]
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“Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity”
Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity. That’s especially true today, as a rising Orthodox[…]
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“The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too many Jews, support for Israel became a vicarious faith…”
The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too many Jews, support for Israel became a vicarious faith, a civil religion masking the inadequacies of our actual religion. The only[…]
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“More Jews in the West than elsewhere were raised by intermarried parents”
… the undeniable impact of intermarriage and other features of Jewish social networks, or the lack thereof. More Jews in the West than elsewhere were raised by intermarried parents. Correlatively, more married non-Jews, and more[…]
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“Should Auschwitz or Sinai be the orienting category shaping our understanding of the rebirth of the State of Israel?”
One of the fundamental issues facing the new spirit of maturity in Israel is: Should Auschwitz or Sinai be the orienting category shaping our understanding of the rebirth of the State of Israel? There are[…]
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“…geography plays a key role in L.A.’s Jewish community, with Jews spread out all over the vast city…”
Rabbi Wolpe believes geography plays a key role in L.A.’s Jewish community, with Jews spread out all over the vast city; this results in vibrant but separate communities, often centered around the synagogue. “There’s not[…]
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