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Marvin Friedlander's avatar

This review of Leifer’s challenging work raises many painful questions about how we who have a Jewish heritage can balance our affection and identity with Israel and its current slaughter in Gaza. Do we balance the 42,000 dead Palestinians against the 6 million Holocaust fatalities vowing “Never Again?” How do we handle the wellspring of antisemitism that has laid just below the surface all these years? Might those like me who deserted adherence to Judaism because of the God thing still consider ourselves culturally Jewish? Somehow I have that nagging feeling that like the British being on the wrong side of history when following WWII they used their governing mandate over Palestine to frustrate the will of the Jewish people, Israel is now on the wrong side of history in its attempt to frustrate a Palestinian state.

As for the future of Jews in America, there will always be a cohort even if smaller of the religious and the culturally familiar.

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Rhoda Schermer's avatar

provocative article- food for much thought. Thank you so much

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