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American Jewish Congress ‘dialogue’ Discusses Israeli ‘jewishness’

Israelis were warned here today not to condemn Diaspora Jews since such condemnation is, in reality, “condemnation of Jewishness.” Addressing a session of the American Jewish Congress Dialogue here, Col. Mordechai Bar-On, chief education officer of the Israel Army, stressed that any Jew who does not come to Israel is not inferior to an Israeli. […]

July 29, 1966
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Israelis were warned here today not to condemn Diaspora Jews since such condemnation is, in reality, “condemnation of Jewishness.” Addressing a session of the American Jewish Congress Dialogue here, Col. Mordechai Bar-On, chief education officer of the Israel Army, stressed that any Jew who does not come to Israel is not inferior to an Israeli.

He called upon Israelis to concentrate on developing more “Jewishness” in their lives as the best way to attract immigration from western countries. Other speakers at the session included Dr. Moshe Ben Meir, Deputy Interior Minister, and Dr. Irving Greenberg, professor of history at Yeshiva University.

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