From the editor – Issue 36

Identity and community are inextricably linked. As one writer recently put it, “Patterns of conduct and virtue exist independently of any individual, and the most important parts of personal identity often emerge not as a result of private thinking but in groups that do and love the same things.”1 We discover who we are not through introspection, but through interaction with others, through community. So identity and community are not a pair of topics, but one intertwined topic. In this issue of Kesher we continue the discussion we began last issue, exploring this unified topic, identity-a