MR032112:""They (Diaspora Jews) are Partial Jews, While I am a Complete Jew"..Award-Winning Author, A. B. Yehoshua, March, 2012"

Published: March 21, 2012, noon

b'Israeli author A. B. Yehoshua made some interesting and controversial statements in a speech delivered last week in the U.S. He seriously questions the ability for some one to be a "complete" Jew while still living in the diaspora...A secular, but very Jewish point of view.\\n\\nOn today\'s show...an exploration of A. B. Yehoshua\'s speech...What was he saying?...What did he mean?...Why?\\n\\nWhy should Jews live in Israel? (other than the fact that it\'s a pretty good place to live, these days)...The Torah-Commandment, religiously observant point of view vs. the purely secular, zionist argument...And what did Ramban (Nachmanides) and other talmudic sages have to say about this issue?\\n\\nPlus...A. B. Yehoshua and the Holocaust...Was it an unavoidable, tragic event in history, or was the Holocaust a "Jewish failure"?\\n\\nAlso...some comments about the murders of innocent Israeli children and their father in France, an ongoing story...\\n\\nAll this and more on The Marty Roberts Show'