Today, we cheerfully admit the charge
and imagine ourselves beloved by the
world for it.
Are we and our culture similarly
honored when a CNN documentary
claims that we have the highest rate
of prostitution in the world? Is it
homage that Newsweek offers pho-
tographs depicting well-heeled
7 matrons watching male strippers in
posh north Tel Aviv living rooms?
Will the prostitutes and strippers also
be invited to perform in the Knesset
for having brought us favor in the
eyes of the nations?
For 2,000 years, Jews prayed to
return to this land. For what? So that
we could fill it with every rite prac-
ticed by the pagans who inhabited it
before us? So that we could express
our hatred of God as loudly as possi-
ble and pat ourselves on the back that
the nations have noticed?
Is this the new definition Israel has
given to Jewish pride?

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Other UJF beneficiaries are the Jew-
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