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...Functional" is one of Feldman's favorite words. He uses it when he wants to make a leap from moral and emotional positions to what he considers practical and defensible ones...
...FELDMAN TAKES great pleasure in defying the investments that others make in his Jewish identity. And it is his awareness of these investments that makes him acutely sensitive to the dangers of group stereotypes, and of the nuances of inter-group conflict...
...have a real sense of insecurity about group manifestations in general." Feldman says. In other words, he does not like to rely on others to argue his position...
Looking at a number of this year's campus controversies involving Jewish groups, Feldman stakes out a distinctly individual space...
...instance, Feldman finds the concerns raised by many Jews at Harvard over the Leonard Jeffries speech, the Harvard Foundation exchange in The Crimson and the Dunster House "kosher toaster" debacle certainly valid. But he questions the extent to which the debates that emerged were "functional...