- Happy Holiday (page 1).
- UAHC President Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie (page 21).
- Ahad Ha'am (a pen name for Asher Ginsburg), a leader of cultural Zionism,
opposed Theodor Herzl's Jewish state. He and his followers didn't display Herzl's grand vision of a battered minority triumphantly reclaiming a land of its own; instead, they worked for the establishment of a Jewish national a modernist, secular culture with modern Hebrew the language of the land (page 32).
- The Russia was the name of the ship on which Theodor Herzl traveled to Palestine in 1898. He later met the Kaiser on the road to Jerusalem (page 40).
- Dori (page 40).
- Moe Berg (page 62).
- I. I am your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
II. You shall have no other gods besides me. You shall not make yourself a graven image.
III. You shall not take the name of God in vain.
IV. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
V. Honor your father and your mother.
VI. You shall not commit murder.
VII. You shall not commit adultery.
VIII. You shall not steal.
IX. You shall not bear false witness.
X. You shall not covet.
(page 77)
- The Dalai Lama, in 1990, to a Jewish delegation (page 104).
- According to Rabbi Dow Marmur, a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis Platform Committee on Reform Zionism, to place Israel in the center would require rethinking the nature of Reform Judaism itself, which has always affirmed the legitimacy of the Diaspora and regarded its prophetic mission to be a light unto the nations' as transcending the cradle of its origins. Many Reform Jews believe that in order to truly be Zionists, they would have to give up a basic tenet of Reform Judaism (page 44).
- The Vanishing American Jew, published by Little, Brown & Company (see advertisement, page 61).
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