Table of Contents
Introduction: Living Life Backward 1
Part I Nine Years in Prison
1 Life Without Freedom, Life Without Identity 9
2 Discovering Identity, Discovering Freedom 33
3 Becoming a Refusenik 49
4 Joining the Dialogue 67
5 Living Free in Prison 93
6 My Dialogue with the Jewish Community: Imagined Reality? 107
Part II Nine Years in Israeli Politics
7 Becoming Israeli 137
8 Imprisoned by Politics: More Power, Less Freedom 153
9 Encountering One People Divided by One Religion 173
10 A Minority of One on Democracy and Peace in the Middle East 191
11 Devastated by the Rabin Assassination 215
12 A Dissident in Politics 239
13 Watching the Dialogue Deteriorate on Campus 257
14 Seeing the New Anti-Semitism Through 3D Glasses 287
Part III Nine Years in the Jewish Agency
15 Why the Jewish Agency? 309
16 Reliving My Exodus with Ethiopian Jewry 317
17 Reforming the Jewish Agency: Because We Need One Another 335
18 Bridge Building Hits the Wall: The Kotel Fiasco 357
19 Iran and Our Feeling of Mutual Betrayal 385
20 Does Anti-Semitism Unite or Divide Us? 401
21 Imagine a Dialogue of One, a Dialogue of Us 425
Epilogue: The Israel-Diaspora Chessboard 439
Authors' Note 445
Acknowledgments 447
Index 451