US midterms reshaped Washington - but they won't decide our Jewish destiny - opinion

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Our response cannot be confined to better lobbying and stronger security arrangements. We need to ask a more searching question: What are we doing to make the next generation want to be Jewish?

The doom-and-gloom merchants will be out in force this week. In the wake of America's midterm elections, they will warn that Washington is turning against Israel, that the old bipartisan consensus is crumbling, and that the future of American Jewry looks increasingly precarious.Add Israel's inconclusive election, with neither major political bloc able to command a Knesset majority, and there is enough material for a…

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