ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the boundaries between voicing a protest and exiting. Jewish identity during the twentieth century was understood as standing between the poles of ethics and piety on the one hand, and ethnicity or nationality on the other. With the turning of the centuries, unqualified and undisputed support for Israel can no longer be taken for granted among a growing section of the American Jewish elite. A movement in the pendulum can also be seen in Israel in the form of a phenomenon among Israeli Jews who grow up secular and even anti-religious. There is a growing trend among secular Israeli Jews to take an interest in the Jewish bookshelf, together with a growing New Age movement.