Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secular American Jews must immigrate to Israel if they wish to remain connected to the Jewish community, Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs told a crowd of 70 yesterday at the Harvard Faculty Club...
...realize for secular Jews in the liberal United States it is impossible to keep Jewish continuity," Yossi Beilin said. "What we will have to see is either religious Jews in the United States or a very small concentration of secular Jews who will make aliyah [immigrate to Israel] if they wish to contribute as secular Jews...
Beilin suggested three alternative programs to bring secular American Jews and Israeli Jews together...
...small band of religious schizophrenics really be responsible for 357 years of secular schizophrenics? Yes. Simply put, the Puritans rocked...
...Rice ultimately takes on too much in Lasher--the novel is too broad in scope. Rice seeks to link up Celtic pagan myths to Christian ones, secular ideas to religious ones. Several of the disparate strands of the narrative seem intentionally left unresolved to pave the way for a sequel. Throughout the novel one is willing to forgive minor stylistic and narrative gaps, yet the eventual collapse of the historical panorama and Lasher's final confession seem little more than ridiculous. For devotes of the genre Rice offers all the elements which make the erotic/horror/fantasy tale popular--she just fails...