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...Fein said he hoped Israel would not divide Jews, but rather would be a force for uniting the worldwide Jewish community...
...Fein reflected that when he was in Israel in the 1960s, only one news correspondant was assigned to the region and only six books had been written about Israeli politics. Today, he said, two or three thousand correspondents cover Israel daily and enough books have been written on Israeli politics to fill several shelves...
With this newfound importance, Fein said, Israel has the potential to be the unifying factor that has so long cluded the Jewish community. He said that Israeli officials must take care not to let issues like the Gaza strip work against that unity...
...last 20 years, Fein said, the Jewish community has sought some sort of "cement" to bind its members together, whether it be through higher education, socialism...
...Fein said that all three of these issues have in fact worked to prevent rather than promote Jewish unity. "Socialism and higher education did not bring the proper redemption, and the most disappointing failure was God," Fein said. "Today, the status of God is divisive rather than unifying," he said...