Word: peoplehood
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...Arabs, but our link of Palestine transcends our Arabism. Our attachment to the land of Palestine has been continuous?until the state of Israel was created. The Jews sought identity in linking their peoplehood to the land, and now the Arabs of the new diaspora are doing the same thing." Even the Palestinians in Beirut or Riyadh consider themselves, in their final analysis, refugees, and many cling to their United Nations refugee card as a symbolic sign of their nationality. Palestinians everywhere contribute generously to the Palestinian cause, including many donations to the fedayeen...
...making the point that in Jewish religion, it is not membership in a synagogue that defines the religious affiliation or originates it or exhausts it. Jewish religion and Jewish peoplehood are inseparable. The synagogue is merely one of the agencies of the Jewish community. Jewish identity is gained at birth...
While more liberal Jews are willing to search for the common denominator of faith within a broader idea of Jewish peoplehood, the Orthodox are more demanding: faith must come first, peoplehood second. Indeed, for the strict est Orthodox, their rigidly sectarian faith actually separates them from other Jews. Even so, the basic Orthodox concept of Jewish identification is far healthier today than was expected just a few decades ago. Now it is burgeoning, partly because the melting pot is passe, but also partly because the Orthodox birth rate is unusually high...
...notes, the Negro has two contrasting virtues: "soul" and "cool." He has learned to blend both, which may provide a useful example to white Christians needing to balance the passionate and the rational in their lives. From Judaism, suggests Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Christians could profitably take the ideas of "peoplehood" and "holy worldliness," for both may be central in the religions of the future...
...some rabbis, the misunderstandings that have arisen over the Mideast war indicate that even the best-intentioned Christians lack an understanding of certain concepts basic to Judaism. The churches' failure to appreciate Israel's plight, they argue, reflects an inability to comprehend the Jewish sense of peoplehood and the primordial place that the vision of Israel as the homeland for God's people occupies in the Jewish mind. Instead of concentrating on how the two faiths can jointly combat moral evils in the world, dialogue might better be served by greater stress on the fundamentals of Jewish...