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Article: Trying To Close The Gap: American and Israeli Jews are drifting
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- The Jewish Week
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- September 8, 1994
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Gary Rosenblatt
The Jewish Week
09-08-1994
Trying To Close The Gap: American and Israeli Jews are drifting further. apart, but there are new efforts to discuss what connects them.
Is Yossi Beilin simply the bad boy of Israeli politics, speaking out of turn when he talks of American Jewry's increasing irrelevance to Israel, or is he articulating a feeling that many of his countrymen share but few are willing to voice? The question is critical at a time when Israeli and American Jewish leaders are calling for a new, more equitable relationship based on mutuality rather than the old model, now viewed as patronizing.
That the current diaspora-Israel relationship is outmoded seems certain. Fund ...