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have not yet decided on their Homeland, the alternatives are these:
if Orthodox, they can call the Torah their Homeland and not think
of it as a text; if secular, they can call Israel their Homeland, know–
ing it is not the same as Zion. But no Jew, religious or secular, can
follow George Steiner, nor can Steiner follow himself. He still has to
decide how it is possible to secularize the Torah and yet regard it as
true, or how to make sacred the untrue text. Without bringing off
one or the other of these impossible feats, there cannot be Homeland
for him.
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