American Jews

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I just read this brilliant piece Noam Sheizaf (whom I now follow on twitter, and writes at the blog Promised Land) on American Jews. Got it via ibn Ezra via twitter then their blog. To be fair, I don’t think I read enough on this issue to give a fair comment, but it was an enlightening enough for me.

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“As I said, this whole approach never seizes to puzzle me. I was always fascinated by American history and culture – to the point of obsession – and I admire the role Jews played in it. But something in the current Jewish politics and ideas regarding Israel don’t fit the long tradition of fighting for civil liberties, freedom and tolerance by this community, both at home and around the world.

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More than ever, I wonder what role this naïve image of Israel – almost an abstract Israel, which has nothing to do with the actual Middle Eastern country – plays in the way Jews see themselves, and how are they going to look back on it ten or twenty years from now.”

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Click here to read the full post.

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http://ZainHD.com/