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Jews Rebuilding Lebanon and Arabs Teaching Holocaust History in Palestinian Refugee Camps |
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by Tamar Fox, June 27, 2008 |
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Jewish single: plenty Jew-y A new report by sociologists Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman has found that unmarried Jews in their twenties and thirties are plenty involved in Jewish life, with 42% of singles saying more than half of their friends are Jewish, and 51% saying they talk to their friends about “Jewish matters.” JTA
Dov Friedman
singles more jewishly involved?
Maybe this is because of the plethora of new Jewish expressions that have popped up. At least this is what I'd like to think, and from a "market" perspective it makes sense. If the market of Jewish expressions has become more intricate, people who used to not "purchase" any of the "products" may have found ones specified enough to entice them to buy.
We've had a lot of discussions on Jewcy about valid forms of Jewish expression. It has been posited by some of the more closed-minded people who comment on Jewcy that there is one valid form or (group of forms) of expression and that everything else is not "true Torah Judaism." I'm not here to debate that point, but I am here to contend that the breaking open of traditional, calcified movements has brought more people into the fold. So much for the theory that leaving "halachic Judaism" serves as a slippery slope to no identification at all.
Strength thru weakness
Josh, when you are in
Josh, when you are in Lebanon, give our regards to Ron Arad, Eldav Regev, and Ehud Goldwasser
RandallJones
How the Jews got revenge on the Germans
Regarding the "Israeli-Arab who lectures about the Holocaust at Palestinian refugee camps," I wonder if he lectures about how the Jews got revenge on the Germans? John Sack has written about this. See http://www.johnsack.com/an_eye_for_an_eye.htm
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