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The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic—What the Women of the Talmud Have to Teach Us
“What is the purpose of Israel? What’s the reason for having a Jewish state?”
The answer to that question is much less obvious than it might seem. Whenever I pose the question, the most common answer is that Israel is a refuge, a place to which Jews from around the world could run if things ever got bad enough where they are: London, Paris or Buenos Aires, for example.
The answer isn’t wrong, of course, but it’s true only to an extent. Yes, things are already going bad in some of those places, and many of those Jews have begun to buy homes in Israel. Just in case.
The problem with that…
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