"We needed Israel because only a Jewish state could protect the Jews after the Shoah... Israel constituted not only the Jewish people's rebirth out of literal ashes but also exemplified the only reasonable response to the Holocaust's most fundamental message."
"Identifying with Israel was total, even if it was an Israel frozen in time, roughly the 1970s... We were an outpost of Israel in New Jersey's north-west Bergen county, deeply involved in its cultural and historical narrative."
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