Jews – I can’t stop thinking about them.  After being immersed in Jewish prayer and Jewish community for a few days with my wonderful modern religious family, I thought I was finished comparing what I knew about the meaning of words with the way Americans interpret them – the love they put into their relationship with the Divine seems alien to the Jewish religion as it is understood by the religion as I know it in Israel.  We just don’t emphasize universal love.

But the big kick came to me in Nyack when I discovered that the yeshivot were putting the lean on public education just like in Israel, strengthening their form of education by the same methods of holding meetings at unscheduled times, channeling funding through deception, etc.  

How can we transcend these oppositions and rise above these limitations?  I know we have to if we are to survive as a people, but how?