Statistically speaking, "the Jewish people of the 20th century" is a group so overwhelmingly dominated by American Reform Jews that you might as well ignore everyone else.
That's not true. In the late twentieth century no more than half of world Jewry was American, and at the close of the century, the Conservative movement was still the largest denomination.
(That comment is also as annoying as the speaker at Limmud a year ago telling us that everything outside Israel or the States was the Jewish Third World, and that nothing of any significance came out of it. I'm annoyed I didn't think quite in time of standing up and shouting out "What about Limmud?" (Or, the translation in the Koren-Sacks siddur, for that matter. Or...))
There's a version of Eliyahu haNavi with Miriam, and you might have heard her Lo yisa goy which she combines with a slight misquote from Albert Camus, viz:
Ah, I've been wondering for years who added that last line.
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Date: 2011-01-10 01:09 pm (UTC)That's not true. In the late twentieth century no more than half of world Jewry was American, and at the close of the century, the Conservative movement was still the largest denomination.
(That comment is also as annoying as the speaker at Limmud a year ago telling us that everything outside Israel or the States was the Jewish Third World, and that nothing of any significance came out of it. I'm annoyed I didn't think quite in time of standing up and shouting out "What about Limmud?" (Or, the translation in the Koren-Sacks siddur, for that matter. Or...))
There's a version of Eliyahu haNavi with Miriam, and you might have heard her Lo yisa goy which she combines with a slight misquote from Albert Camus, viz:
Ah, I've been wondering for years who added that last line.