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American Jews, according to the conventional wisdom, have always been impassioned and faithful in their attachment to Israel. “We are One!” the popular fund-raising slogan, has also served as a…
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Jerold S. Auerbach
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1996
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History will record that as the twentieth century drew to a close, American Jews were facing a political crisis unprecedented in its scope and nature. For the first time in their three and a half…
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J. J. Goldberg
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New York, United States of America
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1996
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A convention of Orthodox Congregations met in New York, Wednesday, June 8, 1898. A resolution favoring Zionism was adopted.The principles of the convention adopted are as follows:This Conference of…
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Orthodox Jewish Congregational Union of America
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New York, United States of America
Philadelphia, United States
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1898
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At the same time, let it be pointed out that this call for a new Hibbat Zion is directed towards the idea rather than the movement, since the historical Hibbat Zion was a movement which failed and an…
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Yosef Gorny
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London, United Kingdom
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1994
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Sinyor Moshe Weinstein, who has recently returned from Chile, a free republic in South America, relates upsetting things about the Jews of this country.
The number of Jews residing in Chile barely…
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Unknown
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire
(Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
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1903
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Social and judicial reforms will not solve the universal Jewish question, nor will they bring an answer to the Hungarian Jewish question; they can only solve internal technical issues, which, as we…
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Ármin Beregi
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1917
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Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains—
Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…
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David Ben-Gurion
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1921
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It is not only Jews who have come out of the Ghetto: Judaism has come out, too. For Jews the exodus is confined to certain countries, and is due to toleration; but Judaism has come out (or is coming…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1898
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To be in exile, with a religious or historical sense that one is exiled, is to have already a mission and purpose in life. One’s clear project then is to end the exile and to return to…
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Morris Grossman
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Fairfield, United States of America
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1986
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The attempt I have made to realign these concepts does not, of course, do away with the conflicts, tensions, cultural struggles, and constant inputs and reequilibrations of problems of identity. All…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
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1980