Rabbi David Hoffman, Scholar-in-Residence, Development Department, JTS
Theirs are more pleasant than ours!
Healthy (and Maybe Even Holy) Ambivalence
Building identity is complicated and sometimes painful work. This is true both on an individual level and when it comes to nations. What makes thinking about identity even more complicated is the fact that identity is really never completely "formed." Sure, a national identity should have core commitments. But I would suggest that we shift our understanding of identity from something that is fixed to a subjective process by which one group comes to recognize itself as being different from other groups. Understood in these terms, identity is dynamic—always emerging and continually being transformed over time.
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