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.
But before this can happen, world Jewry and Israelis alike need to recognize what is happening.
On the one hand, we have Netanyahu, who is clearly focused on preventing another Holocaust of Jewry.
The prevailing political sentiment in Jewry today is of aggressive defensiveness, a curious amalgam of victimhood and intolerance.
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.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made all too clear that, when it comes to world Jewry, he intends to pick up where Hitler left off.
In an obvious bid to split American Jewry away from Israel, Obama refused to discuss Israel or Iran with the concerned American Jewish leaders.
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Tal Becker, an Israeli diplomat and scholar, worries that Israeli policies both peace policy and domestic policy which rejects non-Orthodox Judaism are leading to schism within 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.
Increasingly, though tracking the scattered remnants of European Jewry they went abroad.
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.
So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.
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"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.
Desperate to invigorate his flagging massage business, a father submits to the condescension of a wealthier couple stooping to help Soviet Jewry, an exercise that both humiliates and is to no avail.
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.
The June 4 address of course was the one where Obama compared Israel's treatment of the Palestinians to the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry and to black slavery in the antebellum American South.
To sum up the situation Down Under, an Israeli diplomat got expelled from Australia because Israel allegedly used Australian passports to kill a senior member of an organization dedicated to the eradication of Jewry.
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