Jews regularly identify “belief in social justice” as the second most important factor in their Jewish identity; it is trumped only by a “sense of peoplehood.” It also explains the long Jewish involvement in and flirtation with Marxism. But it is fair to say that Jewish universalistic tendencies and tribalism have always existed in an uneasy dialectic. We are at once the most open of peoples and one second to none in intensity of national feeling.

Stephen Steinlight (Jewish lawyer) (National Affairs Director at the American Jewish Committee) “The Jewish Stake in America’s Changing Demography” Center for Immigration Studies, 2001