The future cardinal was convinced, even then, that he had not abandoned one iota of his Jewishness.
Mr Barak urged Mr Netanyahu not to make Palestinian recognition of Israel's Jewishness a precondition for negotiations.
Yiddishkeit Jewishness that depends more on language, culture and shared institutions than on religion is killed off early in the book.
The public celebration of his claimed Jewishness dated back to his fight in 1933 against a German, Max Schmeling.
Yet, as he revealed two years ago in an interview in the New Yorker, his Jewishness often worked against him.
Jewishness explained everything: his love of texts, his instinctive empathy with themes of blame and persecution, his sense of exile.
Harping on Israel's Jewishness is code, they say, for limiting the rights of Israel's 1.5m Arab citizens, a fifth of the total.
And more fundamentally, what is it to be a Jewish state when Israelis themselves cannot agree on who is the arbiter of Jewishness?
Many Jewish leaders have certainly seen the memory of the Holocaust as a stronger tie to remind the young of their Jewishness than Hebrew classes or fund-raising.
The accusation that Israeli hawkishness turns young diaspora Jews off their Judaism and their Jewishness has been trenchantly advanced by Peter Beinart, a journalist in Washington, DC.
But she never for a moment denied her Jewishness.
ECONOMIST: Israel is moving towards a more pluralistic Judaism
The issues the soul of the Jewish state, the spirit of its supporters abroad, the Jewishness of its immigrant citizens are too important to be left to rabbis and politicians still fighting old factional wars.
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