"If Judaism is to survive, we need a modern Jewish identity that can stand up to the pressures of assimilation, while still fostering the values of liberal humanism that make secular Jews proud to identify as such." As ...

It's in-group exoticism, isn't it? A way to be "transgressive" within acceptable communal limits. How about another topic: what is the Israeli impression of North American Jews, sexually and otherwise? I'm sure for the soldiers ...