If one understands this, then the responses of mbs, or Reuvin or anyone else, are besides the point - it's like revisiting a medieval debate. The response is moot, moot moot!
-Brad Mayer
At 06:11 PM 8/1/01 -0400, you wrote:
>So then does a U.S. jew belong to the nation of the United States or to the
>nation of Israel? Same question concerns every jew in the world that is not
>an Israeli citizen.
>
>(We will assume, for the purpose of this discussion, that there's a
>difference.)
>Joanna B.