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Beautifully written as usual. I recently reread Rabbi J Sack’s A Letter in the Scroll and highly recommend it to anyone. Does anyone know if it is translated into Hebrew? I would support a mass distribution of this book to the Jewish population looking for some clarity on what it means to “identify” Jewish independent of their level of observance.

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I also highly recommend R. Sacks's book "Future Tense". He has a chapter called "A New Zionism". Among other points, he notes the irony that whereas the U.S. was founded partly on Biblical ideas, and that these led to American church-state separation, the founders of Israel rarely cited Biblical ideas. Just like Dr. Gordis above, Rabbi Sacks says that we need a Jewish renaissance in Israel and Zionism. Sacks calls the Hebrew Bible a "forgotten political classic", and suggests that the form of government closest to the Biblical ideal, today, is liberal democracy.

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