But what if something else is at stake: the future of American Jewry itself?
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They have warned Mr Netanyahu that the bill, if passed, would cause a schism throughout Jewry.
But he also promised the outraged leaders of American Jewry not to pass it.
Indeed, many of the divisions in world Jewry today originate in this post-Holocaust policy divide.
After a rabbi at their synagogue asked for volunteers, Adele and Joel helped found the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry.
He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
After retirement, Davidi decided that something had to be done to make Diaspora Jewry feel it was a part of the IDF.
American Jewry, which is mainly non-Orthodox, is keenly interested in the result.
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In 1800 there were more Jews in Charleston, South Carolina than in any other American city more than 500, or one-fifth of all American Jewry.
The vast majority of South African Jewry resides in crime-ridden Johannesburg.
For this she deserves the thanks and support of American Jewry.
The Jewry Wall Museum, only a short distance from the cathedral and the Greyfriars parking lot, houses medieval relics and ancient Roman ruins on its grounds.
On the whole, America's Jewry has been a liberal body, aligning itself with Israel's Labour Party rather than the Likud Party of the present prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.
But when Jews, threatened in the 1930s with Hitler's Final Solution for European Jewry needed most urgently support to find refuge, Britain imposed stringent restrictions on Jewish emigration into Palestine.
Schacter held prominent positions in American Jewish groups, including chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and founding member of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry.
"They are partial Jews while I am a complete Jew, " Yehoshua said during a lecture on relations between Israel and Diaspora Jews, referring to American Jewry, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The newspapers referred to him as the religious leader of New Jersey Jewry and, in reporting on his numerous public appearances, invariably mentioned his "gift for oratory" along with the ten languages.
By staking out a position to the left of AIPAC - and in line with the White House's policies - J Street claims it serves as the true voice of American Jewry.
"Anti-Semitism has no place in football or society in general, " said the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which works to promote and defend the religious and civil liberties of British Jewry.
Thanks to his mother who bribed a teacher at a state school, Marc escaped the narrow confines of the world of East European Jewry, learnt to speak Russian instead of Yiddish and eventually made contact with the bourgeois, cosmopolitan society in St Petersburg.
Yes, the children of Israel have returned to "to their own border"- to the Land of Israel-and the long history of Moroccan Jewry is a special part of Israel's unique saga, achieved with much tears, pain, and suffering, but also with joy and hope, and great expectations over the ages.
This state of affairs will not have reassured a delegation of leading American non-Orthodox rabbis who emerged from a meeting with Mr Netanyahu on that famous night with a commitment that the government will solve, by September, a hitherto insoluble conflict between the Judaism of Israel and the Judaism of much of diaspora Jewry.
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