* Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua reiterated that Jews outside of Israel cannot be complete Jews. Diaspora Jews “put their Jewishness in a box,” Yehoshua said Monday to delegates at the Jewish Agency for Israel assembly, held in Israel. He did, however, say his comments were part of a “dispute within the family.”
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