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...Hasidic Jew was fatally stabbed during the ensuing riots. Breindel likened the Crown Heights riots to an American pogrom...
This sort of wandering exposition had been one of my prime suspicions about the ineffectiveness of dialogue. But seeing it in practice produced only mild frustration. While a guided conversation might have been nice, what took place had its own significant power. Every time a Jew began to speak, I tensed up with anxiety, worried that the individual would misrepresent the entire community. Every time a black student spoke, I hung on every word, as if each bit of information, no matter how mundane, was a precious resource to be hoarded. After more than an hour, and well after Professor...
...during this second small group meeting that the most significant progress was made. One student asked, "Why don't Jews do more to help other struggling minorities? You of all peoples should understand what struggle is like." A Jew inquired of the black students, "Why doesn't your community take more responsibility for its own plight?" Inquiries and answers flew back and forth. At one point, during a discussion about Jewish loyalty to Israel, I suggested that the roots of that loyalty lie at the deepest level in the Jewish fear that someday, somehow, we may be forced...
...reach out to Jewish people all across the world. Chabad has a unique touch of reaching out to the unaffiliated Jew, who would not usually go [to any synagogue]," Scheiner said...
Still, the Law of Return reflects the problematic question of what it means to be a "Jewish State" to many Israelis, both Jews and non-Jews, and Kawar is correct in nothing that Israel has complications in defining its national identity. But to characterize Israel as a theocracy represents a simplification of the myriad elements of identity at play: Jewish religious identity, Jewish ethnic identity and Israeli Statist identity. The fact that academia, the press, the public and the parliament (where both Arab and Jew are represented) can debate issues like the Law of Return reveals that Israel...