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Judaism taught the West to think – now it must teach it how to survive

JL;DR SUMMARY This piece explores the enduring identity of the Jewish people despite historical pressures of assimilation and persecution. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TalmudJewish HistoryJewish EducationJewish IdentityDiasporaAssimilationSecularismCultural SurvivalLogical Reasoning

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Israel
"This is the contrast between the Jews of the State of Israel and the Jews in the rest of the world, or the Jewish diaspora."

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