Jewry between Tradition and Secularism: Europe and Israel Compared

Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two—fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana’a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe to Judaism? The analysis shows that t...