Blog : A Rabbi's World

I can feel it in the air, and all of us who are charged with the responsibility to articulate Israel's precarious position to American Jews, particularly younger American Jews, can feel it too. The automatic, reflexive support that American Jews used to have for Israel just isn't there. Younger American Jews, even middle-aged ones, never knew a world without Israel, and much younger American Jews barely, if at all, remember the Yom Kippur War, not to mention the Six Day War. It's a challenge to get them involved and supportive. Spitting in their faces is unlikely to get it done.