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<p>Boyarin's latest work makes provocative arguments that there is a real collective identity of the Jewish people as a nation, but that it is independent of the Israeli state and territory. </p>

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Finkelstein, Norman G. at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  184467049X - ISBN 13:  9781844670499 - Verso Books - 2005 - Hardcover

New Zealand's own Richard-Dawkins-Lite, antitheist Joe Bennet stressed in Holy Week

The premise behind attacking people for not screening stocks is the same as that assumed by Jesus’ critics in Mark 7. It is a form of legalism which monetizes religious guilt.

When a Scarsdale, N.Y. synagogue fired an educator who accused Israel of genocide and U.S. Jews of enabling violent racism at home, Beinart and others rushed to her defense. What on earth were they thinking?

The phrase itself is a provocation: The Israeli Century.

We are cosponsoring a talk by French author Sylvain Cypel on Tuesday February 15 at noon. “Will diaspora Jews gradually emancipate themselves from a thug nation that claims that it alone can speak in the name of Judaism?” he writes.

Rabbinic Judaism unanimously rejected the idea of celibacy and defined sexual activity as a mitzvah.

Israel’s assault on Gaza last May alienated many American Jews, and a lawsuit against a Westchester temple for firing 26-year-old Jessie Sander, an avowed anti-Zionist, highlights the fissures inside the Jewish community.

Sylvain Cypel paints a too-hopeful portrait of American Jewish life as a virtuous broad tent united in their opposition to racism. What actually exists is a hodgepodge of intercommunal bickering, toothless fingerwagging, and hand-wringing– against an ever growing backdrop of apartheid.