Word: diasporas
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...fell over Jerusalem's Old City last Wednesday, Orthodox Jews recited evening prayers at the Western Wall, the remains of King Herod's great temple and the symbol of the fall of Israel two millenniums ago. Armed border police stood guard against terrorists while 1,500 leaders of the Diaspora, more than half of them Americans, assembled for a "Conference on Jewish Solidarity with Israel." Mordechai Gur, commander of the troops that wrested the Old City from Jordan in 1967, read a closing proclamation: "We support the democratically elected government of national unity in its efforts to achieve peace...
...power over the religious conversion of immigrants to Israel. By implication, the legitimacy of Conservative and Reform Jews would have been undermined. Outraged protests from abroad helped torpedo that idea and forced creation of another inaptly named "unity" government joining Likud and Labor. It also made it easier for Diaspora Jews to vent their unease over other issues. Says Alexander Schindler, head of the U.S. Reform movement: "The 'who-is-a-Jew' issue gave license for many to express their cumulative distress...
...Judaism in Rural New England. "It was easy to reject. A lot of people walked away from that." Many college-age Jews in the late '60s and '70s left the cities for the arresting landscapes of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the back-to-the-land movement -- a diaspora from the Diaspora, says Eno. After the novelty of clean air wore off, this Jewish Big Chill contingent confronted the harsh realities of isolated rural life, compounded by the gnawing issue of their lapsed Jewishness. "We're just at the stage of finding out what works," says Rick Schwag...
...benefit is that Israel will then make its capital Tel Aviv, an action that will emphasize the nation's progressive modern attitudes rather than the illiberal theocratic forces which, in my mind, have had an extremely damaging effect on the nation--both in its relation with Arabs and with diaspora Jews...
Though tempted, Johnson is not completely seduced by the attractions of mystical determinism, the idea that Jewish experience from the Covenant through the Diaspora, the Holocaust and the Return is the expression of providential design. "We are," he writes, "credulous creatures, born to believe, and equipped with powerful imaginations which readily produce and rearrange data to suit any transcendental scheme." Abundant evidence is proffered, from Jewish false messiahs to Aryan delusions of racial supremacy...