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Jackie Digs Books
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“Pluralism assigns equal value to (certain) opposing positions. It means being cognizant of difference without asserting hierarchical claims. Pluralism does not necessitate the acceptance of all positions, but it does recognize the possibility of equally valuable goals that cannot be “graded on one scale”. It allows us to see others’ very different viewpoints as being just as authentic as our own.”
— Nov 16, 2024 05:00AM
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Jackie Digs Books
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“They also need to understand that for Israelis, fifty plus years of occupying another people has come at a profound moral cost. It is difficult to sustain a sense of moral obligation toward a people who you believe has rejected your right to exist and who has eliminated peace and coexistence as an option.”
— Nov 27, 2024 04:49AM
Jackie Digs Books
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“If Israel and North American Jewry were to disengage from each other, my principal concern would not be about Israel’s political well being but whether my Jewish story is in danger of coming to an end - a Genesis emergency. I have no Judaism without my people.”
— Nov 27, 2024 04:20AM
Jackie Digs Books
is on page 132 of 360
“I am left with one major problem with regard to the entire question of our relationship to the State of Israel. I think the worst thing that Zionism and the State of Israel have done for us is to give us another topic in America which cannot be debated. We now have a subject on which no arguments are allowed, no criticism. A new sacred cow is introduced.”
— Nov 24, 2024 06:33PM
Jackie Digs Books
is on page 83 of 360
“His (Maimonides) own life’s work centered around the same mission: to try to save his own commitment to Judaism by reinterpreting that which he found alienating within the tradition he’d inherited.”
— Nov 18, 2024 04:01PM
