PrefaceNew DimensionsIsrael and American Jewry in the Twenty-First Century: A Search for New Relationships3Responses25Responses36Negation of the Exile?Shlilat Ha-Galut: Past and Present41Responses: The Question of Shlilat Ha-Galut in American Zionism59Responses: Beyond Zionist Theory: Coming to Terms with the American Jewish Experience64The Modern Jewish KulturkampfAmerican Jewry and Israel: The Ways of Peace75Religious and Secular Jews in Israel: A Cultural War?88Responses109Responses116Teaching and Appreciating the OtherThrough a Glass Darkly: Israel in the Mirror of American Jewish Education123American Jewry as Reflected in the Secondary School Curriculum in Israel131Responses: Readmitting Tensions in Cultivating a Relationship to Israel150Responses: Myths and Realities in Teaching Israel163Responses: Soul Searching174Responses: The Multi-Rootedness of the Israeli Jew180American Jewish Institutions and the Jewish StateCan the Center Hold?187American Jewish Institutions and Israel197Responses204Responses210Responses214A New AgendaA New Agenda221Responses: To Stand Within the Covenant225Responses: A Reinvented Jewish Polity in a Globalized World228Concluding ThoughtsBridging Our Differences: An American Perspective239An Israeli Perspective249Postscript: Liberal Judaism's Interaction with Israel259Contributors262