Steven Bayme
By Steven Bayme
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Letters Letter to the Editor: ‘Diaspora’ Is Hardly A Pejorative
To the Editor: Jane Eisner’s April 19 essay “It’s Time For Israel To Recognize That Diaspora Jews Are Already Home” correctly underscores the necessity to alter the framework for dialogue between Israel and world Jewry to an internal family discourse about the meaning of Jewish peoplehood. I disagree about dropping the term “Diaspora,” which is…
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Culture The Roots of a ‘Special Relationship’
Eye on Israel: How America Came To View Israel As An Ally By Michelle Mart SUNY Press, 242 pages, $65. In recent years, numerous commentators have sought to explain the “special relationship” between Israel and America and the reasons for it. Some observers have pointed to the influence of American Jewry either in praise of…
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Culture Exploring the American-Israeli Alliance
Michelle Mart, a historian at Penn State University, adopts a novel approach to understanding the special relationship — a battle of “cultural narratives” within America that Israel won and the Arabs lost. In her view, an American culture in the aftermath of World War II that was truly inhospitable to antisemitism became wedded to a…
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Opinion Real Realism on Intermarriage
Building on a new study of Jewish identity among the children of intermarriage, the Forward editorialized about the alleged failings of the organized Jewish community. In its July 8 editorial, “Welcoming the New Jews” — i.e. the offspring of mixed marriages — the Forward declared: “The Jewish community needs to come to terms with the…
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