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Throughout Early Modernity There Were Very Strong Pressures On Jews To Assimilate. Assimilating Meant Cutting Your Ties With The Community Of Origin.

The Proof Of My Jewishness Is That Iniquities Done By Israel Pain Me Much More Than Iniquities Perpetrated By Any Other Country.

Being Condemned By Fate To Perpetual Togetherness, We Better Make That Shared Fate Into Our Shared, Consciously And Gladly Embraced, Destiny.

As Far As Love Is Concerned, Possession, Power, Fusion And Disenchantment Are The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse.

I Worry About Younger Generations Who Were Born To View Their Country Trampling On Humanity Of Everyone That Comes In Its Way, As The 'normal State Of Affairs" - Because They Knew No Other. We Know How Easy It Is To Shed, Under Such Circumstances, The Thin And Frail Veneer Of Civilization, Not To Mention The Moral Standards Of Which The Jews Were Presumed To Be The World's Teachers.