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In this article, comments of five longtime observers from the U.S. Jewish community is presented on the relationship between the American Jews and Israel. First comment is by the Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College. According to him, gender and theology are the two symbol systems that configure the relationship between the State of Israel and American Jews. Zionism meant transcending effeminacy, re-creating the Jew as man. If Zionism was about Jewish masculinity, then the establishment of the State of Israel inaugurated a marriage between Israel and American Jewry. Another commentator is the visiting Professor of Humanities, New York University. He comments that the Jews of Israel and the United States have been "married" for fifty years, and they can no longer cover up their disenchantments with each other.