explicit
09.05.06, 16:16
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The ignorance is shown by the fact that pupils in Israeli schools do not
learn anything about the existence of Jews in the world today. The country
that had no trouble absorbing billions of dollars from Diaspora Jews does not
see fit to devote even a single hour of class time to teach its citizens
about the existence of those Jews and the problems troubling them. A lone
study program, which was initiated by the AJC, aims to change that situation.
As for the alienation, American Jews need not go as far as Israel to grasp
the degree of detachment Israelis feel toward them. It is enough for them to
ask themselves why the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of Israelis
living in the U.S. do not participate in the life of the Jewish community, do
not attend its institutions and do not contribute a thing to its existence.
Zionism and Orthodox Judaism alike instilled in the Israeli public ignorance
of and alienation from the Jews of the Diaspora, in no small part because of
anxiety about the wealthy and attractive alternatives to Jewish existence on
offer in foreign fields. On the Israeli left, hostility to Diaspora Jews is
growing in tandem with the belief in a state of all its citizens and the more
the country's Jewishness is perceived as political incorrectness.
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The Jews in the U.S. who are worried about the future of ties to Israel
should ask themselves what is done with the funds they transfer every year to
the Jewish Agency and other bodies in Israel. Why does only a tiny percentage
of these find its way into programs that deal with studying the Diaspora or
conducting a genuine dialog between Israelis and Jews living overseas.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=712939&contrassID=19