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| December 2004 Highlights
A New Diaspora Identity
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|  Aryeh Cohen: Slowly the myth crumbled. Purity of arms fell away, then purity of intention, then integrity of purpose Surprisingly, the last to go was the abiding belief that the State of Israel was and had to be the center of the Jewish universe.
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| Nancy Levene: The way home is neither simple nor straight for someone raised to think of Israel as the logical and existential outcome of a committed Judaism.
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| Shaul Kelner: Globalization offers the rationale and the means to modernize Israel’s Jewish mission.
Tali Hyman: Jewish identity has long been reified as a powerful “product” to be urgently manufactured and marketed.
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| Adam Weisberg: When I asked students if Jewish involvement placed them outside the mainstream of student and campus life, many answered my question with their own: What does counterculture even mean today?
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| For
Sale: Living Words V: A Source Book on Israel in a Time of Struggle
A timely resource for rabbis, educators, and families to  address
the crisis in Israel. Included are High Holiday sermons, new rituals
for celebrating Israel's Independence Day, Responsa on the Prayer
for the Peace of Israel, essays and resource materials to teach
Israel in synagogues and schools.:
Available now www.Jflbooks.com
Foreword by Yitz Greenberg bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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| “This is the new paradigm no longer positions the land or the State of Israel at the center of the Jewish world because, sociologically at least, that notion is becoming increasingly meaningless. It rather positions the people of Israel — the social capital of the Jewish people as a whole — at the heart of the Jewish world, and asks all of us to strive to learn from, and contribute to the collective task of strengthening the Jewish people.”
Jonathan Boyd, Sh’ma December 2004
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