Jews abroad see Israel as increasingly backward and irrelevant to them, and Jews of different streams within Israel are at loggerheads.
Official Israel still denies claims of ethnic discrimination between Jews of European origin and Jews from Arab and Muslim lands.
Directed by John Gray (who has made historical television films like "The Hunley"), "Haven" is best when it dares to move into territory it can claim as its own, like the resentment of the Jews among American soldiers on the ship and even the tensions that erupt between Jews from different parts of Europe.
"As an MP, I will do everything in my power to build relations between Muslims, Jews and people of different faiths and none".
Many of the stumbling points, of course, had less to do with differences between Jews and Christians than differences among different strands of Judaism.
Relations among religious and ethnic groups--between Jews and non-Jews, Muslims and Christians, Arabs and non-Arabs, secular and religious Jews, and among the different streams of Judaism--often were strained during the reporting period.
There were the Izmir Jews, whose food was different from the food of the Istanbul Jews; the Jews of Bombay, whose food was different from the food of their cousins in Calcutta, or Goa or Cochin.
For his part, Halevi demands a much more real and meaningful cleavage between Jews and the rest of the nations.
Among the Jews, an important line of division is between Ashkenazim (broadly, Jews of central and eastern European origin) and Sephardim (Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin, but the term is used more generally to include North African or Oriental Jews).
Reflecting on their findings related to the maternal origin of Ashkenazi Jews, the authors conclude "Clearly, the differences between Jews and non-Jews are far larger than those observed among the Jewish communities.
