Reply To: Six-Day-War Major-general “There was a Siyata diShmaya”

Take two people. One is my Rosh Yeshiva, who says that when he’s asked his nationality, he says “American”, because Judaism isn’t a nationality, but rather a religion. An MO person might say the same answer when asked, but not because he thinks Judaism is not a nation – he believes very much in zionism after all. He’ll say it because he identifies with America as part of himself, while the rosh yeshiva looks at it the same way he would describe his eye color or skin tone; inconsequential – he doesn’t identify with anything other than torah.