Who do we see as the bearers of the Zionist hagshama? We say the Jewish people. But do we live in a way that the concept of a Jewish people is a reality for us or not? When one of the kids from Kinneret or Degania meets a Kurdish Jew or their kids in Tveria, do they feel as if they are one people and one family? Will a child, that had been raised in a kvutza and comes across these Jews, feel a real sense of partnership with them? Is Tveria (not Warsaw or Lublin!), the Jewish community of Tveria, a differnt world altogether? Officially it is considered to be a part of the Jewish people, but in what way does the fate of the Jew in Tveria really concern him? And I would like to hear the truth: how does he interact with the "other Jew"?
When a Jewish kid from a kvutza meets a Jew with peas and a zupitsa (kind of hat) or a Jew dressed in Sephardic fashion, does he really feel (not just like he learned about it in school!) that they belong to the same society? I am not sure of that. Sometimes I think that a friend of his from Ha'noar Ha'oved, or the movement or the meshek, when he talks about the fate of the Jews, can't imagine something outside of the blue shirts. He can include Hashomer Hatzair, even though they have a different semel...
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