Jews are a small people, and partnership can be valuable

Disclaimer: What follows reflects my personal religious perspective as one Orthodox Jew. I do not claim to speak for all Jews, for Judaism as a whole, or for any other community. Nothing here is intended as a universal command but as my own understanding of how Jews and non-Jews might collaborate for the good of humanity.

Explainer: As I see it, many other nations are built around a shared language, geography, history, culture, or religion. But the Hebrew Bible tells Jews to be a ‘light unto the nations’; a mission then seems the sole raison d’être of the Jewish People. Without that, we could all intermarry and assimilate the Jews away. We are not just a religious community because there are irreligious Jews who completely count. Because we are identified as a nation, our religion must be merely part of our culture and not our essence.

I think we Jews could invite interested........

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