Great take by @ChemiShalev on the growing division between Israel & Am Jews.
One underplayed theme in recent accounts is the long-standing tension over who is the big brother and who is the little brother. This status has shifted over time from...
One underplayed theme in recent accounts is the long-standing tension over who is the big brother and who is the little brother. This status has shifted over time from...
... US to Israel, to the point that Am Jews had increasingly been tending to put Israel at the center of their J identity (a trend that is much further along in most of the rest of the world). But there have been reversals over the years (e.g., Am J leadership on saving Soviet...
... Jewry) and Trump is a galvanizing event in prompting Am Jews to reaffirm their long-standing ideals and push back at Israeli trampling of those ideals and Israeli primacy more generally.
Similar status tensions may be underlying current divide between Ortho Am Jews...
Similar status tensions may be underlying current divide between Ortho Am Jews...
... (who were once relatively weak & poor)& liberal Am Jews.
An interesting irony: In the midst of a larger political crisis that can be characterized as a rear-guard action by a racial & cultural class to save its historic dominance, the same dynamics within the J community...
An interesting irony: In the midst of a larger political crisis that can be characterized as a rear-guard action by a racial & cultural class to save its historic dominance, the same dynamics within the J community...
... are running in the opposite direction, in that the rearguard action by an historically dominant class is fighting *against the larger rearguard action* by the historically dominant class in the larger society.
