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August 14, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2314

Israel's Place in the World

[Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania] Michael Steinhardt - Michael Steinhardt began the Taglit Birthright Israel program, a philanthropic enterprise which has provided free 10-day trips to Israel for some 220,000 Jewish youth to learn more about their heritage. In a recent interview, he said: "The circumstance of Israel's birth, and the well-articulated vision of relatively few people - surrounded by tens or hundreds of millions of enemies - who were outnumbered in all sorts of ways, but managed to survive and ultimately achieve a vigorous, democratic, prosperous society, is an extraordinary phenomenon. And for many secular Jews it has been the single miracle of the 20th century."

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