It is an occasion for a cheshbon nefesh, a time to make an accounting concerning Anti-Semitism, Eastern Europe, Israel, America, Yugoslavia. My credo remains: Everything Jewish has priority. But this is not an exclusive claim. A Jew’s horizons must include others. Hence my trip to Yugoslavia and Serbia, if only to demonstrate the importance of listening to others. Unfortunately, the promise shown by the break up of communism in 1989 in Eastern Europe and Germany has revealed resurgent antisemitism and the failure of democracy. In contrast circumstances in Israel which in 1989 looked dim now show promise, particularly with the Russian and Ethopian immigration. We hope the new leaders will not only be Israelis but also Jewish. Statistics in America underscore why Jews shouldn’t count. But young Jews in America are returning. Choice is the main issue: Sartre’s book, Anti-Semite and Jew, was mistaken. It is not the antisemite that makes a Jew Jewish. It is rather the Jew who everyday chooses to be Jewish. A half-dozen moderated questions included: Can Jewish morality be passed on to future generations outside of Orthodox religious practice? The answer: No, not really. Such practice implies a kind of mystical quest which moves every Jew to identify himself or herself with multitudes of sages and disciples, with multitudes of creative spirits. What a privilege it is to be a descendant of Isaiah! And when we repeat chazon Yeshayahu, that means we are Isaiah’s descendants, and we, therefore, pass on the morality that was his to this generation.