While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

Audiences are audiences.

Audiences are audiences.

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were...

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were...

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a...

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a...

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot...

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot...

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the...

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the...

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered...

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered...

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed....

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed....

You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits.

You learn more from the flops than you do from the hits.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I...

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I...

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of...

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of...

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized...

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized...

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said...

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said...

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that...

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that...

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about...

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about...

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed...

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed...

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism...

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism...

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To...

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To...