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| January 2006 Highlights
Globalization and Jewish Identity |
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Jeffrey Sachs: Affluent Jewish communities around the world could be doing much more as well. Many charities that have tended to focus on local or parochial concerns rather than on the poorest of the poor worldwide. It is urgent and timely to cast such activities in a wider, indeed global, reach. The American Jewish World Service, on whose Board I am honored to serve, is an example of a dynamic and effective organization that brings succor and valuable support to the poorest of the poor throughout the world, enabling communities to lift themselves out of chronic hunger, poverty, and ill health.
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Micha Odenheimer: As Jews who recognize that Judaism contains a vision for humanity, globalization clearly presents us with a grave challenge and an unprecedented opportunity. Although the globalization of the economy is a process that began 500 years ago with European colonialism, the end of World War II with the concomitant expansion of American economic power, and more recently the fall of communism mark astounding new phases in the totality of its scope. The ferocity of the new antisemitism not withstanding, it is fair to say that the process of globalization has gained exponentially in velocity at the very moment in which the majority of Jews are for the first time fully empowered citizens of the democratic countries — first and foremost the U.S. and Israel — that are key participants in the global economy. We thus have both the opportunity, the freedom — and the urgent responsibility — to try to influence the future face of humankind.
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Anita Shapira: In the past decade, a slew of new concepts have cropped up, refocusing attention on the question of Jewish identity in the 21st century: globalization, the clash of civilizations, the struggle between Western civilization and Islam. And amid all these, we find the Jewish people, with, on the one hand, the State of Israel, a sovereign Jewish state caught up in the power struggle of international and Middle Eastern politics, and on the other hand, the Jewish Diaspora, under the sway of global processes for better or for worse.
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| "Slowly a new type of Jewish house is being built that will hold under its virtual roof all Jewish identities as Jews across Europe come to understand that different ways of being Jewish are a sign of renewed Jewish life and vigor, not divisiveness and weakness. Globalization has enriched, not impoverished, European Jewry."
Diana Pinto, Sh’ma January 2006
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