@rachel s, two dollar, manhattan man: totally agree about the husband.
I mean no matter what the issue is, who agrees to accept someone's hospitality only to spend the entire time berating them for their beliefs. It could be vegetarianism or a disdain for opera or Zionism, but either be polite and bite your tongue or stay the heck home.
You have the argument once, you realize the other person is not coming around to your side and so you let it go or you don't see them again.
Equally disturbing is that the author went to a top school - U of M - but never bothered to know anything about the history of the Middle East. Sad comment on American education that she could get by for so long without having taken a class that presented both sides.
To be fair, her journey is not all that uncommon for American Jews, I never got why we had an Israeli flag and sang Hatikva- we were Americans, not Israelis - and he article does a good job of articulating that ambivalence towards a country that is now better known for Adam Sandler's sleazy "Zohan" character than for Paul Newman's heroic Ari Ben Canaan.
On Life After Zionist Summer Camp
@rachel s, two dollar, manhattan man: totally agree about the husband.
I mean no matter what the issue is, who agrees to accept someone's hospitality only to spend the entire time berating them for their beliefs. It could be vegetarianism or a disdain for opera or Zionism, but either be polite and bite your tongue or stay the heck home.
You have the argument once, you realize the other person is not coming around to your side and so you let it go or you don't see them again.
Equally disturbing is that the author went to a top school - U of M - but never bothered to know anything about the history of the Middle East. Sad comment on American education that she could get by for so long without having taken a class that presented both sides.
To be fair, her journey is not all that uncommon for American Jews, I never got why we had an Israeli flag and sang Hatikva- we were Americans, not Israelis - and he article does a good job of articulating that ambivalence towards a country that is now better known for Adam Sandler's sleazy "Zohan" character than for Paul Newman's heroic Ari Ben Canaan.