The North American Federation of Temple Youth is betting that the surest way to encourage young Reform Jews’ connection to Israel is to expose them to the Jewish state in its bewildering complexity – warts and all.
When the leader of modern Persia convenes a conference of Holocaust deniers, publicly contemplates a world without Israel and openly seeks nuclear weapons, should we be putting on Purimshpiels? Absolutely, writes Rabbi Michael Bernstein.
In the early decades of the Jewish state, Israelis abandoning the homeland were scorned as weaklings and traitors. But the government for some time has been wooing the growing number of citizens abroad.
