Gershom Gorenberg
A few days ago, Haim, you responded to a challenge I raised in a post on the conversion battles. Your answer made me realize that I hadn’t phrased the question sharply enough.
I wrote: “We need to define a civic Israeli identity not dependent on halakhic status.” You wrote that I was right, but that [...]

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Haim Watzman
If, like me, you are a Jew who grew up in America in the second half of the twentieth century, your Jewish identity was molded by a set of what seemed like self-evident propositions. First and foremost, Jews are different from other people in that they belong to a community that was both a [...]

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