"We Jews: who are we and what should we do?".(Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's Babylonian Talmud into...

The world renowned Talmudic scholar, lecturer, author, and translator of the Babylonian Talmud into Hebrew, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, named his latest book by the above title. At the outset I should like to state that the following lines are not intended to be a formal review of this book, though I might write such a review at another time. Here, I want to reflect on one of the chapters entitled "Are We a Nation or a Religion?: Our People Are Not a Religion, nor a Nation, nor an Ethnic Group, Nor a Race." In this chapter Steinsaltz concludes, after offering a critical analysis of eac