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...burning reason to stay alive in the midst of the Diaspora (the Exile) and often calumny and pogrom. In recent years the real possibility of aliyah ("ascent" to the homeland) has been realized. Jerusalem is accessible, for the moment at least a precious part of Israel; yet most Jews remain in the countries they grew up in. What does the old pledge mean now, in a world where Israel and the Diaspora exist side by side? Where do Jewish loyalties lie? Who, or what, is a Jew now that Jerusalem is no longer just an evanescent goal...
...Jew contemptuously calls a "gastronomical experience": blintzes, bagels and lox, gefilte fish...
...still an emigree, you might say, but no longer a wandering Jew. I have settled down, it's just that my sense of perspective is different. Taxi-drivers still ask me where I'm from. I don't mind. Culturally, a colleague once described me as being the 'metics' metic'." She smiles wryly. "Although not at all religious. I feel myself very much a Jew. If I need a tag. I guess it would be 'Jewish metic...
...city before escaping to join De Gaulle. He discusses the convulsions of Anglophobic, anti-Semitic and antidemocratic feeling that after the debacle helped Frenchmen blame everyone but themselves for defeat. He also tells of his charade of a trial by Petainist judges, before which he announced: "I am a Jew. I am a Freemason, but I am not a deserter; now let the trial begin...
...Paul, too, has come in for rehabilitation. His admonitions to the women of Corinth may have merely been sound advice: Corinth was a mixed community of Jew and Gentile Christians, and Paul probably feared that the more liberated Greek women would offend the Jews if they did not wear veils or spoke up too loudly during services. Jewish Theologian Richard L. Rubenstein, in a new book, My Brother Paul, admits that Paul's theology is pointedly masculine for much of its course, but sees a feminine image in Paul's vision of the "restoration of all things...