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Lainie Kazan

Kazan began her career more than five decades ago as the understudy to Barbra Streisand in the Broadway version of "Funny Girl."

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This book isn’t about “Israel itself, U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East, or the fate of the Palestinian people inside or outside Israel’s borders,” Eric Alterman writes in the introduction of his new book, “We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel.” ⁠
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Rather, his purpose is to explore the discourse around those topics in the American Jewish community.⁠
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According to Alterman, the 1967 Six-Day War—which began #onthisday, 56 years ago—caused a tectonic shift of the Jewish community away from an America-centric agenda toward a hyperfocus on Israel advocacy and Holocaust remembrance.⁠
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“The Arabs’ pre-war threats [to destroy Israel] terrified American Jews and put them in mind, once again, of the Holocaust, with its ensuing feelings of trauma, guilt, and helplessness,” he writes. ⁠
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As support for Israel came to dominate American Jewish life, he laments that resources were diverted from local Jewish identity-building initiatives such as “Jewish education, community service and the Jewish tradition of social justice known as tikkun olam.…”⁠
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🔗 Tap the link in bio to read more. ⁠
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✍️ by Martin J. Raffel ...

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