Comments on: Moshe Gil on Jewish Nationhood http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2009/12/10/moshe-gil-on-jewish-nationhood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moshe-gil-on-jewish-nationhood Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harry Perkal http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2009/12/10/moshe-gil-on-jewish-nationhood/comment-page-1/#comment-2377 Harry Perkal Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:01:41 +0000 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=2079#comment-2377 THe "decoupling" of religion and nationality maybe a modern phenomenon, but it is essential in today's modern world. That is why there is such a crisis in the Muslim world- where Islam and the modern state are too intertwined. To a lesser extennt we see it in Israel and in Jewish life in America. After all one can be a Frenchman or a Jew and EVEN be an athiest. THis was off course not true to a large extent in the Middle ages. So religions have to adjust to a new. modern world. Harry P THe “decoupling” of religion and nationality maybe a modern phenomenon, but it is essential in today’s modern world. That is why there is such a crisis in the Muslim world- where Islam and the modern state are too intertwined. To a lesser extennt we see it in Israel and in Jewish life in America. After all one can be a Frenchman or a Jew and EVEN be an athiest. THis was off course not true to a large extent in the Middle ages. So religions have to adjust to a new. modern world.

Harry P

]]> By: adderabbi http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2009/12/10/moshe-gil-on-jewish-nationhood/comment-page-1/#comment-2376 adderabbi Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:28:05 +0000 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=2079#comment-2376 It should be fairly obvious that the "decoupling" of Jewish religion and nationality is a relatively recent phenomenon (in historical terms). BTW, Gil's more recent "Ve-hacna'ani az ba-aretz" is forthcoming in English. It should be fairly obvious that the “decoupling” of Jewish religion and nationality is a relatively recent phenomenon (in historical terms).

BTW, Gil’s more recent “Ve-hacna’ani az ba-aretz” is forthcoming in English.

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