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“The Pittsburgh Platform of 1885, the document by which the Reform rabbinate, the largest stream of American Jewry, expressed its foundational values, said the following: “We consider ourselves no longer a nation but a religious community, and therefore expect neither a return to Palestine . . . nor the restoration of any laws concerning a Jewish state.”
― David Friedman, Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East