Not so long ago, American Jewish children learned from their parents to love the State of Israel. Even secular, assimilated American Jews gave their kids charity boxes to collect nickels and dimes to plant trees there, as the parents do in Woody Allen’s 1987 film Radio Days. But that was a time when Jews remembered the tragedy of the ship St. Louis, with its hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazis and not a single country willing to take them in.
By Naomi Ragen // Several high-profile Israeli rabbis have come under fire for less-than-holy schemes.
Since the recent elections, new laws are changing Israeli society for better and worse.
With the new government in place, Israelis are beginning to address the complicated question of what they want their country to look like.
Our columnist leaves her comfort zone and accepts an aliyah for the first time.
