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Do American Jews have a homeland at all?
By Bradley Burston


Do the Jews of North America need Israel? And if they do, what, exactly, is it that they need?

For one thing, a homeland.

When author A.B. Yehoshua detonated debate over the world's two principal Jewish communities, he primed the fuse with the concept of moledet, whose English equivalent, though anemically simplistic by comparison, is the word homeland.

The concept of moledet stalks Israelis from birth, driving some to heroism and many to distraction. It can inspire, infuriate. It can instill faith and it can get you killed. It can stop a nation in its tracks, and make its finest children want to leave. It can be ridiculed, exalted, held high as legend, exploded as myth. But it cannot be ignored.

Except in America. For many Americans, certainly for many Americans Jews, the very word homeland has been robbed of much of its meaning, hijacked by the White House, whose use of Homeland Security not only smacks of the cornball and the faux, but has taken on the Plot Against America sheen of user-friendly fascism.

Geopolitics, prosperity, liberalism - and, true, bad decision-making in Washington - being what they are, it has now been well over half a century since American Jews turned out in appreciable numbers to volunteer to defend the land of their birth in the armed forces.

Thus it truly should have come as no surprise, that when the American Jewish Committee held a symposium on the future of the Jewish people, and when that symposium was held on Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, and when Yehoshua asked that the occasion be marked with a moment of silence, the program went on as planned, no silence, no hitch.

At the same time, the concept of a distant Homeland Away From Home remains a crucial if often overlooked pillar of the American Dream - this idea of the Old Sod, the place "our people" came from, generations ago, the hardscrabble but earnest, effortlessly authentic cultural treasure of an Old Country from which we arose, and which, we want to believe, goes to make us what we are.

In the eyes of many, whether their ancestry be Irish, African, Chinese, or Jewish, it is the Old Country, rooted, genuine, poignant, vibrant, proud in ways that we are not, dignified in ways that we are not, often tragic and destitute in ways that we are not, that sets us apart in the great maw of contemporary American homogeneity.

For North American Jews, the majority of whose forebears arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the question of the Old Country was long a no-brainer. It was the Shtetl, the Eastern European Pale of Settlement, the Yiddish-laced fount of borsht belt culture, of both Shalom Aleichem and Fiddler on the Roof, the source of what Americans learned to identify as Jewish food, Jewish humor, the Jewish mind, the Jewish heart.

But time moves faster and farther in America than in most places. The generation who spoke Yiddish gave way to the generation that understood it but refused to speak it, and then to the present generation, which seems to be split between those who wish they spoke it more than does the non-Jew on the street [shlep/shiksa/shpiel/shtik/shmaltz], and those who couldn't care less if no one did.

In time, as a consequence of the Holocaust having exterminated the world of the shtetl, and a prosperous American-born generation having moved out of the Old Jewish Neighborhoods of U.S. and Canadian cities, the location of the Old Sod began to change as well.

Increasingly, as the grandparent generation of "authentic Jews" were now Americans rather than their own parents the Europeans, the Old Neighborhood itself took on the role of the Old Country - witness Brooklyn, and parts of the Bronx and New Jersey, points of reference for many New York-area natives now resident in Orange County and Indiana, and for such citizens of the world as Woody Allen and Philip Roth.

In fact, it is only recently that a different Old Country has come to take its place in the American Jewish soul. Israel is still, in fact, a new country, a new culture, but it is beginning to fill to a remarkable extent the needs of American Jews for the genuine Old Sod.

A new generation of North American Jews whose native-born roots go back three or more generations, are looking to Israel for precisely those elements of authenticity and all-embracing Jewish culture of which Yehoshua spoke, and for the unparallelled sense of actually treading the locales of the texts whose significance Yehoshua seemed to play down.

But there is another element that may yet play the key role in forging a true bridge between Israelis and American Jews: the very large, very different group of first generation North American Jews now coming of age, tens of thousands of young adults who are the children of thousands and thousands of immigrant Israelis.

These are the children of the Israelis who had nurtured an American Dream of their own, no more going to the army, no more going to work on Sunday, no stratospheric taxes, no dying for your country, and, for a lucky few, gold in the streets.

After generations of parallel development, the two communities remain to a large degree mirror opposites, unable to see the other except as caricature.

To this day, many Israelis, for example, are unable even to begin to understand the American Jews' complaint of alienation. Alienation is, after all, virtually impossible in a nation where talk is free and frank to a fault, privacy limited, and everyone barely one degree of separation away from every event on the news. In fact, it may be said that many Israelis come to America to enjoy, for once, a bit of what alienation has to offer.

Perhaps they can envy, in some perverse sense, the overwhelming power of denial that underpins the American practice of marking their Memorial Day by barbecuing meat.

But keep your eyes on the remarkable generation of what used to be called b'nei yordim, the children of those who "went down" to America. Their problems of Jewish identity are among the most complex and difficult anywhere. But this group may well also pave the way for a new relationship between two communities which, until now, have never really known each other at all.

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  1.   Sick and tired of USA = Diaspora 00:53  |  Roberto Feldmann 16/05/06
  2.   Do American Jews have a homeland? 04:22  |  molechaser 16/05/06
  3.   YOUR CONCEPT OF HOMELAND IS IDIOTIC 05:45  |  ALBERT SERRA 16/05/06
  4.   Bartok 07:42  |  Moe Chile 16/05/06
  5.   The Height of Arrogance! 08:08  |  Ian 16/05/06
  6.   Every jew 08:20  |  Kristy 16/05/06
  7.   #3 Albert Serra 08:26  |  Yonatan 16/05/06
  8.   The future of the Jews is in Israel 08:40  |  Andre 16/05/06
  9.   AMERICAN JEWS.Is what Jews call themselves.American comes first-- 09:02  |  PETER SM 16/05/06
  10.   Ian in San Francisco (Post No. 5) 09:20  |  Johnny Weintraub 16/05/06
  11.   Ian in San Francisco (Post No. 5) 09:20  |  Johnny Weintraub 16/05/06
  12.   Ian-It is not arrogance 09:49  |  Rahab 16/05/06
  13.   yearning for a dreamland... 09:49  |  ohs 16/05/06
  14.   #8 Andre - You presume too much! 09:51  |  Ian 16/05/06
  15.   Homeland 09:52  |  MRZIPCODE 16/05/06
  16.   If the US is not a home land for the Jews, I know no other place 10:45  |  El-Birawi 16/05/06
  17.   3 Albert 10:55  |  searcher 16/05/06
  18.   Yonatan--Oooh 10:58  |  searcher 16/05/06
  19.   #5 Ian, Aliyah and assimilation 11:11  |  Yonatan 16/05/06
  20.   Forgotten generation 13:15  |  sh 16/05/06
  21.   #14 Ian - you know too little 13:48  |  harold 16/05/06
  22.   Yonatan 13:52  |  Dror 16/05/06
  23.   My Homeland - America 13:54  |  Debra Cohen 16/05/06
  24.   Debra but you ARE interested 14:13  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  25.   DIaspora Judaism and her Jews 14:15  |  Dror 16/05/06
  26.   Dror: From the Sox to the Secular 14:33  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  27.   ill advised column 14:46  |  zeevola 16/05/06
  28.   zeevola: Right of Return and Returns on Investment 14:57  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  29.   Ahmadenijad is a G-d send 15:01  |  Dror 16/05/06
  30.   Ronnie 15:02  |  Debra Cohen 16/05/06
  31.   What kind of question is this? 15:08  |  Israeli 16/05/06
  32.   What kind of question is this? 15:19  |  Israeli 16/05/06
  33.   Jewish Americans 15:29  |  SR 16/05/06
  34.   The `Moledet` for most American- Jews is the US of A 15:38  |  Shalom Freedman 16/05/06
  35.   A SANCTUARY, perhaps, rather than a homeland 15:40  |  Yaakov 16/05/06
  36.   Debra #23 15:58  |  SR 16/05/06
  37.   SR you are the man, I love you 16:01  |  Dror 16/05/06
  38.   Debra: We are all Glorious Pundits 16:09  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  39.   Moledet 16:10  |  Michael N 16/05/06
  40.   Do Israeli Jews have a homeland at all? 16:11  |  Asylum Aleikum 16/05/06
  41.   I agree Israel will become the old country of diaspora 16:54  |  bruce 16/05/06
  42.   Ronnie 17:04  |  Debra Cohen 16/05/06
  43.   GWB and Mahmoud 17:05  |  Dror 16/05/06
  44.   that is the issue? 17:17  |  arab 16/05/06
  45.   US = Home, Israel = Homeland 17:21  |  David Landman 16/05/06
  46.   another Israeli 17:31  |  Stephen Connor 16/05/06
  47.   DIFFICULT SUBJECT 17:32  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  48.   I`d join the IDF before my own army 17:37  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  49.   I`M TORN OVER THIS ISSUE! 17:39  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  50.   ANTI-SEMITISM GROWING IN THE US 17:41  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  51.   let`s be honest, most americans don`t like us 17:44  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  52.   Simple commentary 17:44  |  Dror 16/05/06
  53.   AMERICA=BIG BROTHER, ISRAEL=LITTLE BROTHER 17:55  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  54.   DEBRA COHEN, YOU DON`T REPRESENT ME 17:59  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  55.   America is no homeland 17:59  |  peter 16/05/06
  56.   Who is a Jew?!! 18:00  |  UYGUR 16/05/06
  57.   This discussion has reached the absurd 18:04  |  Mark Lincoln 16/05/06
  58.   the new shtetl is the suburbs 18:06  |  gabriel 16/05/06
  59.   America the homeland? 18:10  |  peter 16/05/06
  60.   FAR FROM ABSURD MR. LINCOLN 18:20  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  61.   #3 Albert Serra 18:23  |  Jay 16/05/06
  62.   Philly Jew, dont despair 18:33  |  Dror 16/05/06
  63.   Jew. So What`s New?!? 18:39  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  64.   It shouldn`t take a bomb, Ronnie 18:47  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  65.   How torn can you be Philly? 18:54  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  66.   Burstons nonsence rules supreme 18:57  |  pace306 16/05/06
  67.   American Jews were PROGRESSIVE, now some look for a new "home" 19:01  |  R 16/05/06
  68.   OY! Such Tsuris 19:05  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  69.   Of the People, By the People, and For the People 19:14  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  70.   And maybe the Ha`Aretz editors can show a bit of this tolerancw 19:18  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  71.   Jacob Blues 19:25  |  Stephen Connor 16/05/06
  72.   What homeland is, and is not 19:25  |  Aaron Levitt 16/05/06
  73.   Debra Cohen: Walls and Ceilings 19:34  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  74.   Jacob Blues on Debra,The Debka File and Mikvah 19:41  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  75.   Alienation 19:45  |  W 16/05/06
  76.   jacob blues, i can answer for Philly 19:49  |  Dror 16/05/06
  77.   Pace: The Israeli Supreme Court IS more Important than the Lulab 19:51  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  78.   to#5#10-MY DAUGHTER VISITED ISRAEL-SHE COULDN`T STOMACH A WEEK 19:57  |  Disgusting, she said 16/05/06
  79.   what would be the point of usa jew volunteers 19:59  |  virginia 16/05/06
  80.   Jacob (Red White and) Blues 20:00  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  81.   There is a wide gap between conscience and scape goat 20:06  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  82.   Realism, anyone? 20:10  |  Stanley 16/05/06
  83.   TO JACOB BLUES 20:20  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  84.   AMERICA LOVES US WHEN IT HELPS THEM 20:27  |  Philadelphia 16/05/06
  85.   Re:Yanatan # 7 20:38  |  e.m 16/05/06
  86.   Extremists always need a target to hate Dror 20:47  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  87.   TO IDENTIFY WITH RACIST ISRAEL? A MOST OUTRAGEOUS IDEA 20:51  |  Israel is non-Jewish 16/05/06
  88.   Ma nishtana 20:51  |  sh 16/05/06
  89.   A homeland 20:55  |  Jon 16/05/06
  90.   Honestly Ronnie 20:56  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  91.   Re:Lan#3.No where jews can call it jewish state except tha Israel 21:01  |  e.m 16/05/06
  92.   I Am At Home in Israel and the USA 21:06  |  Jane 16/05/06
  93.   Three cheers for Ian and Debra 21:12  |  Sid 16/05/06
  94.   Strangers in a strange land 21:22  |  Scharker Yid 16/05/06
  95.   Again Philly, what makes you Jewish 21:23  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  96.   America is a country for all it`s citizens 21:25  |  Abm Habibullah 16/05/06
  97.   Why wait then Philly? 21:25  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  98.   Disgusting she said.... 21:35  |  rich 16/05/06
  99.   Scharker Yid makes a very good point 21:38  |  Dror 16/05/06
  100.   Your welcome Philly 21:39  |  Dror 16/05/06
  101.   Death to America....Compared to Sesame St. 21:47  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  102.   Grown up pop culture 21:50  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  103.   Philly Jew 21:52  |  Kyle 16/05/06
  104.   Do American Jews have a homeland at all? 21:58  |  Nasir A 16/05/06
  105.   #90 Jacob Blues 22:02  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  106.   Jane,you dont live in the USA 22:03  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  107.   #78, tough luck 22:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 16/05/06
  108.   Ronnie - Haha. Palm Beach Not Lauderdale 22:10  |  Jane 16/05/06
  109.   WHAT IS KEEPING ME HERE AND WHAT WILL MAKE ME GO 22:13  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  110.   THE AMERICAN ARMY HAS A BAD REPUTATION FOR A REASON 22:14  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  111.   Invisible Jews?!? 22:14  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  112.   FUNNY HOW THE MUSLIMS WANT US TO STAY IN US 22:16  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  113.   UYGUR ? Judaism and Christianity are Myths but what about Islam 22:18  |  David Israel 16/05/06
  114.   GOTTA LOVE THEM UNCLE TOM U.S. JEWS... 22:22  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  115.   Jacob,Teheran`s Sesame Street: The Show is a Bomb 22:23  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  116.   Re:Nassr A # 104 22:25  |  e.m 16/05/06
  117.   Rich: America`s has stolen the land but.. 22:29  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  118.   Wake up 22:46  |  Jeff 16/05/06
  119.   get real! 22:48  |  Jeff 16/05/06
  120.   TO JACOB--LONG ISLAND IS A SMALL PART OF US 22:53  |  Philly Jew 16/05/06
  121.   The epitome of diaspora/israeli jewish identity - PART 1 22:55  |  Mishehu 16/05/06
  122.   A surprising homeland 22:59  |  Michelle 16/05/06
  123.   The epitome of diaspora/israeli jewish identity - PART 2 22:59  |  Mishehu 16/05/06
  124.   Jane: Israel and Florida/ Orange Wells 23:06  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  125.   Hate to break it to you Philly 23:17  |  Jacob Blues 16/05/06
  126.   Homeland 23:19  |  Hilda 16/05/06
  127.   Homeland: Commonwealth of Virginia 23:20  |  Paul Freedman 16/05/06
  128.   Their homeland is America and not occupying Palestine to be their 23:30  |  Palestinianchristian 16/05/06
  129.   Philly Collins 23:42  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  130.   Phony "Palestinan" and phony Christian. 23:43  |  Palestiniansareamyth 16/05/06
  131.   Re: Debra Cohen 23:46  |  Logic 16/05/06
  132.   Philly Jew (part I) 23:46  |  Stephen Connor 16/05/06
  133.   You drive along and a chinese guy cuts you off... 23:47  |  Ronnie Wolman 16/05/06
  134.   Who needs milk and honey 23:48  |  BazMann 16/05/06
  135.   Philly Jew (part II) 23:49  |  Stephen Connor 16/05/06
  136.   Philly, We will be here for you 23:49  |  Dror (Freedom) 16/05/06
  137.   Never read the book have you Philly Jew 23:50  |  Mark Lincoln 16/05/06
  138.   Jacob 23:51  |  Dror 16/05/06
  139.   Philly Jew 23:53  |  Stephen Connor 16/05/06
  140.   Religion First, Ideology Second 23:54  |  Efox 16/05/06
  141.   The American army has a reputation for brutality and ignorance. 23:54  |  Mark Lincoln 16/05/06
  142.   Diaspora = America Mostly 00:01  |  Efox 17/05/06
  143.   Efox, right on baby 00:08  |  Dror 17/05/06
  144.   Efox, right on baby 00:08  |  Dror 17/05/06
  145.   #2 "Do American Jews have a Homeland 00:11  |  Mory 17/05/06
  146.   philly jew 00:12  |  Omar 17/05/06
  147.   American Army in Iraq 00:14  |  Efox 17/05/06
  148.   Truth!!! 00:15  |  Joel in Albany 17/05/06
  149.   Faith Dror? No 00:17  |  Jacob Blues 17/05/06
  150.   We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident... 00:21  |  Jacob Blues 17/05/06
  151.   We the People of the United States... 00:22  |  Jacob Blues 17/05/06
  152.   And as for culture Dror, 00:27  |  Jacob Blues 17/05/06
  153.   #31 Illogical 00:27  |  Jay 17/05/06
  154.   #136 Dror (Freedom) 00:32  |  Jay 17/05/06
  155.   Efox your my hero 00:32  |  Dror 17/05/06
  156.   Efox your my hero 00:32  |  Dror 17/05/06
  157.   Correction to No.4 Bartok 00:34  |  Moe Chile 17/05/06
  158.   # 5 Ian. from san Francisco. PLEASE STAY PUT,ISRAEL DOES NOT NEED 00:58  |  S 17/05/06
  159.   # 23 Debra Cohen. GOOD FOR YOU.JUST DON`T BUDGE FROM THERE....... 01:02  |  S 17/05/06
  160.   # 23 Debra Cohen. AN ADDENDUM TO YOU.WHY THEN YOUR INTEREST HERE? 01:09  |  S 17/05/06
  161.   and 3 cheers for you too, Sid 01:11  |  Jeff 17/05/06
  162.   # 30 Debra Cohen.re:Ronnie. I`LL BET YOU`D BEEN A POLITICAL ..... 01:19  |  S 17/05/06
  163.   # 147 Joel in Albany.re:Truth. ABSOLUTELY! I SAY:YOU TOO CAN STAY 01:35  |  S 17/05/06
  164.   Jay, keep your enlightened dribble, we don`t want it 01:56  |  Dror (FREEDOM) 17/05/06
  165.   Jacob and the US constitution 02:02  |  Dror 17/05/06
  166.   # 142 Efox. America,SPOT ON.ISRAEL IS YOUR REFUGE.REMEMBER ALSO.. 02:06  |  S 17/05/06
  167.   re. Jacob Blues 03:07  |  Efox 17/05/06
  168.   Turning American Jews goy.... 03:29  |  Vanessa 17/05/06
  169.   Do Israeli`s Jews have a homeland at all? 04:30  |  Joe 17/05/06
  170.   Disgusting she said.Don`t do Israel any favours,stay home 04:36  |  PETER SM 17/05/06
  171.   Congress shall make no law... 05:01  |  Jacob Blues 17/05/06
  172.   Too much whining here . . . Philly Jew, etc. 05:02  |  Grif 17/05/06
  173.   elBirawi #16 05:05  |  Gary from US Part 1 17/05/06
  174.   ElBirawi #16 05:06  |  Gary from US Part 2 17/05/06
  175.   48 Philly Jew You claim that most Americans 05:29  |  Searcher 17/05/06
  176.   philly jew 109 05:32  |  potobac 17/05/06
  177.   homeland 05:32  |  daniel 17/05/06
  178.   110 Facts, Philly! Facts! 05:35  |  Searcher 17/05/06
  179.   philly jew 112 05:37  |  potobac 17/05/06
  180.   philly jew 114 05:39  |  potobac 17/05/06
  181.   114 Philly Ah, something we agree on 05:46  |  searcher 17/05/06
  182.   home 05:51  |  daniel 17/05/06
  183.   122 Michelle 05:51  |  Searcher 17/05/06
  184.   Dror: Get Your Scientific Terms Straight 06:46  |  CHGODMK 17/05/06
  185.   Phill jew disgrace to all americans 07:17  |  Omar 17/05/06
  186.   philly jew i believe.. 07:19  |  Omar 17/05/06
  187.   jacob blues well put 07:33  |  Omar 17/05/06
  188.   Daniel #170 my response sir 07:50  |  Omar 17/05/06
  189.   chdo??whoever the hell u r 08:08  |  Dror 17/05/06
  190.   Omar; I`m not Jewish and I would join the Idf. 09:25  |  Native American 17/05/06
  191.   Home sweet home Israel 13:19  |  simon 17/05/06
  192.   #11 15:18  |  philipp meyer 17/05/06
  193.   philly jew #109 18:47  |  palestinian 17/05/06
  194.   Ronnie Wolman 18:49  |  rich 17/05/06
  195.   native american 18:51  |  palestinian 17/05/06
  196.   Homeland, racism (Burston column) 20:02  |  Prof. James Friedman 17/05/06
  197.   Bnei Yordim 21:02  |  Shaka 17/05/06
  198.   AMERICAN Jews (#9) 21:07  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  199.   North American Jews UNWELCOME? 21:11  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  200.   A uniting force? (#53) 21:15  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  201.   More important to WHOM? (#77) 21:24  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  202.   Rubbish everywhere? (#78) 21:27  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  203.   No security for Jews worldwide without a state of Israel? (#91) 21:30  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  204.   "feeling?" (#93) 21:32  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  205.   Israel belongs to WHOM? (#104) 21:39  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  206.   Of Native Americans, etc. (#195) 21:45  |  Yaakov 17/05/06
  207.   America is the Jewish homeland, not some old pile of rocks! 21:56  |  David Klein 17/05/06
  208.   God Bless America 22:06  |  Shaka 17/05/06
  209.   Homeland? 22:30  |  P. J. Casey 17/05/06
  210.   THIS AMERICAN JEW HAS A HOMELAND: 23:20  |  jdyer 17/05/06
  211.   THE PALESTINIAN MYTH A MUST READ 23:33  |  josh 17/05/06
  212.   THE PALESTINIAN MYTH. A MUST READ...CONT. 23:34  |  josh 17/05/06
  213.   native american #190 00:31  |  Omar 18/05/06
  214.   Thank you Jacob Blue of #69 -- it`s easy to overlook 02:26  |  bbl 18/05/06
  215.   #5 Ian 03:20  |  justiceseeker 18/05/06
  216.   Homeland and Memorial Days 07:37  |  Jacques Benkoski 18/05/06
  217.   HOMELAND 09:50  |  MENDEL 18/05/06
  218.   Native Americans 11:32  |  Efox 18/05/06
  219.   El-Birawi -- how many Jews? 11:40  |  bbl 18/05/06
  220.   re. Josh 11:47  |  Efox 18/05/06
  221.   re MENDEL 11:54  |  Efox 18/05/06
  222.   Keep him away from Israel 13:19  |  Alex 18/05/06
  223.   Why we are hated? 13:53  |  Dan 18/05/06
  224.   golden calf seekers get the butt in the end 15:45  |  real time 18/05/06
  225.   there must be jewish revival first 16:01  |  Dror 18/05/06
  226.   RESPONSE TO EFOX #220 17:16  |  josh 18/05/06
  227.   JUST GO! 17:47  |  julie 18/05/06
  228.   re. Alex 19:41  |  Efox 18/05/06
  229.   What is an American Jew? 20:58  |  Margie 18/05/06
  230.   Do American Jews have a homeland at all? 22:55  |  Joel Ammor 18/05/06
  231.   Re. Josh on so called Nakba 23:45  |  Efox 18/05/06
  232.   Searcher 00:25  |  Stephen Connor 19/05/06
  233.   what about the isralies who can`t stand american jews? Brilliant!!! - H 02:43  |  iraqi ben or yehuda 23/05/06
  234.   #231 EFOX 23:12  |  josh 24/05/06
  235.   To #9 -"Peter " Do you understand grammar?! 19:22  |  mike Brooklyn 31/05/06
  236.   to number 9 and other anti-aliyah commenters 19:31  |  mike in Brooklyn 31/05/06
  237.   to commenter #1 Roberto from Chile 19:39  |  Mike from Brooklyn 31/05/06
  238.   To Albert Serra 19:49  |  Mike in Brooklyn 31/05/06
  239.   Hoping to make aliya 20:16  |  Mike in Brooklyn 31/05/06
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