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Article: Van Leer speakers debate the state of Jewish identity
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- Jerusalem Post
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- July 20, 1999
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ARIELE MORTKOWITZ
Jerusalem Post
07-20-1999
Participants at a conference on Jewish identity yesterday were divided over whether Jewish identity in Israelis and Diaspora Jews is converging or moving further apart.
They also wondered whether Jewish identity was solely religious. "Israeliness is also part of the Jewish identity," said Eliezer Schweid who with Rabbi Naftali Rothenberg chaired the fourth annual conference on the Framework for Contemporary Jewish Thought and Identity at the Van Leer Institute .
"After the Six-Day War Jewish educators discovered the power of Israel that they couldn't find in Torah and tradition," said Mordechai Bar-On, former IDF chief ...
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