Just as we look at the approaching holidays as occasions for communal bonding, we experience anew the solidarity that is the strongest thread of Jewish continuity.
In Israel, your neighbor may vote for a different party, speak a different language, make more noise than necessary—or become your patient, surgeon or kidney donor.
Israel’s existence altered the way the world looks at the Jewish people. It also altered the way we look at ourselves, in both pride and self-awareness.