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 [...]
Does Israeli Equal Jew? On a Shared Israeli Identity
July 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Judaism and Religion
Tags: Brother Daniel·civil identity·Conversion·Jewish identity·Law of Return
Black and White and Jew All Over: Eric L. Goldstein’s “The Price of Whiteness”
May 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments · Culture and Ideas
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 [...]
Tags: blacks·Jewish identity·Jewish-American history·race relations·Sami Rohr Prize·whites