CONCLUSION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We have always loved America much more than America has loved us.  Therefore, total assimilation must be resisted if we are to remain Jews in America.  In order to facilitate a spiritual revival in Jewish America, and maintain a Jewish identity here, the continued rise of intermarriage must be opposed.

Complacency toward the United States government's reduction of support for Israeli policies of West Bank settlement, and the official reuniting of Jerusalem, must end to prevent the "surrender" of Jewish America's "collective self".  Jewish America, as the largest Jewish community in the world, must support Israel, and its relations with the Palestinians if we are to maintain a homeland at all.  The only viable alternative is a return to the ideals of Zionist thought - return to Israel.

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Thanks goes to the contributions from the following:  Alfonse D'Amato, Arthur Hertzberg, Irving Howe, Walter Laqueur, Arthur Morse, David Wyman.

JEWISH AMERICA'S POLITICS 1967-1973

Jewish America was overwhelmingly in support of Israel during the 6-Day War of 1967, raising $100,000,000 in emergency funding, and going to Israel to work in civilian jobs so Israelis could fight.  The emergence of the Jewish New Left, however, led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin (who, I must admit, were humorous heroes in my late teen years), turned our views in a more conservative direction.  Although nearly nonexistent beforehand, awareness of the Jewish New Left caused an increase in anti-Semitism.  Following the 6-Day War, we began the "get-out-of-Vietnam" movement.  Jewish America's support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 was noticeably less than in 1967.