I see and witness the existential tragedy of the Jewish experience in Israel, but struggle to feel it. So I stopped trying. Today I simply support the Israeli project in ways I can, But sometimes I try again to understand the condition of being Jewish in Israel, like after reading this.
Thanks for sharing this lovely piece with the reminder that beauty and chaos and restriction are everywhere we look—and sometimes intertwined with one another. I’m a fellow Free Press reader, but also a skeptic of the Israeli govt. and its motivations. Well… maybe not *it*… but the people at the top of it at the moment. I don’t know what my current sentiments are towards their government, but perhaps more meaningfully to me, the way the USA seems to have been hawkish on their conflicts for just about forever.
It's a long and tough history. I'm decidedly on Israel's side, but I absolutely understand some (though not all...) of the criticism. Still, that really even isn't the point of this all. It is the former--the paradox of the life we live, and the God I believe in. I hesitate to add--this war was not of their choosing.
I see and witness the existential tragedy of the Jewish experience in Israel, but struggle to feel it. So I stopped trying. Today I simply support the Israeli project in ways I can, But sometimes I try again to understand the condition of being Jewish in Israel, like after reading this.
Thanks for sharing this lovely piece with the reminder that beauty and chaos and restriction are everywhere we look—and sometimes intertwined with one another. I’m a fellow Free Press reader, but also a skeptic of the Israeli govt. and its motivations. Well… maybe not *it*… but the people at the top of it at the moment. I don’t know what my current sentiments are towards their government, but perhaps more meaningfully to me, the way the USA seems to have been hawkish on their conflicts for just about forever.
Maybe I don’t have an opinion 😂
It's a long and tough history. I'm decidedly on Israel's side, but I absolutely understand some (though not all...) of the criticism. Still, that really even isn't the point of this all. It is the former--the paradox of the life we live, and the God I believe in. I hesitate to add--this war was not of their choosing.