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We affirm the reality and oneness of God, even as we may differ in our understanding of the Divine presence.
We affirm that the Jewish people is bound to God by an eternal בְּרִית (b’rit), covenant…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
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New York, United States of America
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1999
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Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with Patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also…
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Boston, United States of America
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1915
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The Jew can be an ally of the black liberation movement and he should be. But first he must find himself. He must realize that his own struggle for liberation is a continuing one, that he also has…
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M. J. Rosenberg
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1969
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Behind him, a short distance to the right, he had noticed a stranger—give a skeleton a couple of pounds—loitering near a bronze statue on a stone pedestal of the heavy-dugged Etruscan wolf suckling…
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Bernard Malamud
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New York, United States of America
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1958
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Averbuch uses paving stones, railroad ties, steel, glass, and other reclaimed materials in his sculptures, repurposing them but also allowing them to retain signs of their utilitarian past. His works…
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Ilan Averbuch
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New York, United States of America
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1986
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In the spring of 1961, I flunked an exam that would have enabled me to write an honors thesis. In reality, it was a minor failure—I was spending most of my time at the Crimson building, where I was…
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Paul Cowan
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New York, United States of America
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1982
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Things have changed since we last met. Some of your friends have already reached their homeland; others are soon to follow. Once opened, the gates will not shut again. Nothing will ever be the same as…
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Elie Wiesel
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New York, United States of America
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1977
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Why did the American Jewish Congress send a group of its leaders to Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to meet with leaders there?
The delegation, which met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s…
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Henry Siegman
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New York, United States of America
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1985
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Defining and establishing Mizrahim as Edot haMizrah served to prevent, until the early 1980s, any attempt to create a collective Mizrahi identity as an alternative to the general Israeli identity…
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Sami Shalom Chetrit
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New York, United States of America
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2004
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[…] Every year, out of 5.5 million Israeli Jewish citizens, about 50,000 travel to India as backpackers, most of them immediately after their military service. Backpacking is a very significant…
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Darya Maoz
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Albany, United States of America
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2005