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Michael Koplow takes sharp issue with the Israeli education minister’s definition of American Jewry “as a religious and tribal identity [with] assimilation and intermarriage fatally threaten[ing] both of these components” (“Education Minister Out Of Touch With American Jews,” Opinion, July 19). In Mr. Koplow’s view “American Judaism is more a cultural identity and a value […]

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I am grateful to Gary Rosenblatt for providing a forum for disparate voices to be heard, voices like mine that challenge prevailing political and social beliefs (“Jewish Week Editor To Step Down After 26 Years,” June 28). He helped make The Jewish Week a place where one could feel confident that an opposing point of […]

Ideas

Fortunately, one need not embrace the dystopian views of Israel’s Education Minister, Rafi Peretz, to reject Michael Koplow’s utopian and almost delusional paean to America’s rapidly assimilating non-Orthodox Jewish community (“Education Minister Out Of Step With American Jews,” July 19). Sadly, these Jews have not been “redefining their Judaism” as Koplow would have us believe; […]

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