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Once We Realize That The Strangers Are Here Forever And Won't Go Away, Then, Like Husband And Wife In The Old-style Marriage, We Would Try To Find A Way Of Living Together Peacefully And With Mutual Benefit. The Sooner We Understand That In A Globalized World The Diasporic Nature Of Cohabitation Is Never Likely To End, That It Will Always Be With Us, I Believe Such Modus Vivendi Will Be Found.

In Celan's Words A Jew Is "a Man With A Little Book Under The Shoulder." We Are The Keepers Of Tradition.

I Think That The Essential Instruction Of The Bible Is Very Much Topical. The Sole Problem Is That With Every Change Of Historical Setting, You Need To Readjust The Interpretation Of The Message.

I Worry About Younger Generations Who Were Born To View Their Country Trampling On Humanity Of Everyone That Comes In Its Way, As The 'normal State Of Affairs" - Because They Knew No Other. We Know How Easy It Is To Shed, Under Such Circumstances, The Thin And Frail Veneer Of Civilization, Not To Mention The Moral Standards Of Which The Jews Were Presumed To Be The World's Teachers.

Everybody Is In Trouble, Including The Up-and-coming Economic Miracles Of China, Brazil Or India.