The idea of Jewish Peoplehood has resonated in the secular societies of Europe and the Americas for centuries. The twentieth-century writer Mordecai Kaplan distinguished between nationhood, as in the State of Israel, and a sense of belonging that binds...
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The idea of Jewish Peoplehood has resonated in the secular societies of Europe and the Americas for centuries. The twentieth-century writer Mordecai Kaplan distinguished between nationhood, as in the State of Israel, and a sense of belonging that binds together all Jews around the world to a peoplehood that is inclusive, irrespective of birthplace, nationality, tradition, and practice. Combined with an expanding emphasis on personal choice in contemporary spiritual life, Jewish Peoplehood has come to signify contemporary Jewish identity.
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