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While Israel has changed in both size and purpose during the 40 years of its existence, the idealism that helped to form Israel in 1948 must not be lost in the political realities of the Middle East today, Fein said...
...Jerusalem that we knew 40 years ago was very different from the Jerusalem we have come to know today," Fein said. "The Jerusalem of the past was more faith than place. We knew that that was being built over there was a dream, 'the heavenly Jerusalem'," he said...
...During the late 1960s, we began to realize the earthly Jerusalem," Fein said. "The first time I went through Jerusalem, I was expecting this 'heavenly' place but ended up touring the red-light district," he said...
...Fein emphasized the difficulties Israel has had in combining the religious principles so important to its citizens with the realities of Israeli politics...
...Once 1967 came, we realized how much Jerusalem had become a religion," Fein said, remembering a meeting where three rabbis in a Holiday Inn in Tewksbury, Mass, decided to "excommunicate" any Jew who voiced an opinion against the state of Israel...