
The Making of an American Shtetl
Identity/Crisis
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The Power Piece Feels the Most Essential
If you don't have to abide by the ruling of a local rabina court, because you can simply claim its lack of legitimacy. It's an interesting inversion, if you will, of the classic implementation of dina di mahuta dina which usually bespeaks the subservience of the jewish community to the state. But here, inta of this interesting move it's really eroding the authority of that self contained religious community with its legal institutions. And that, i think, is a sort of one step towards what we saw in 20 20 in what may be fleeting fashion, may not," he says.
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