The future cardinal was convinced, even then, that he had not abandoned one iota of his Jewishness.

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Mr Barak urged Mr Netanyahu not to make Palestinian recognition of Israel's Jewishness a precondition for negotiations.

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The public celebration of his claimed Jewishness dated back to his fight in 1933 against a German, Max Schmeling.

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Yet, as he revealed two years ago in an interview in the New Yorker, his Jewishness often worked against him.

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Jewishness explained everything: his love of texts, his instinctive empathy with themes of blame and persecution, his sense of exile.

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And more fundamentally, what is it to be a Jewish state when Israelis themselves cannot agree on who is the arbiter of Jewishness?

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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.

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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.

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Is my own Jewishness clouding my own news judgment here?

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But she never for a moment denied her Jewishness.

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