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Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Founder & President Rabbi Avi Weiss explains that a strong sense of national identity does not contradict universal consciousness, but is actually a prerequisite. |
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At the JCPA 2007 Plenum, Avi Weiss implores Jewish groups to "never do less for ourselves than we would do for others," a tenet that he feels is often violated in activism.
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Fringe movements are where activism really begins, notes Avi Weiss, and it is the job of Jewish leadership to then take these efforts and move them into the mainstream. |
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For Rabbi Weiss, the greatest threat to Jewish people today is to the Jewish soul, recalling the definition of "Jewish" as one whose grandchildren are Jewish. |
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