The recent report by Mike Ozanian of Forbes that Major League Baseball is at once considering contraction of the Tampa Bay Rays and paving the way for Rays owner Stuart Sternberg to buy a stake in the New York Mets appeared to many observers as an isolated, if inevitable, case.
But for much of the past 15 years, the full expanse of Jewish history and identity was narrowed to a discussion of isolated neighborhoods, asif they were what this is all about.