Combating an Israeli-American identity crisis
A year after Irit Bar-Netzer arrived in Los Angeles from Israel, she had her first son.
A year after Irit Bar-Netzer arrived in Los Angeles from Israel, she had her first son.
Goldberg recently won the Anti-Defamation League\’s Daniel Pearl Award and goes so far as to suggest that being Jewish has benefited him in his dealings with terrorists.
One should read Israeli writers, of course — Agnon, Amichai, A.B. Yehoshua, Aharon Appelfeld, Orly Castel-Bloom, Etgar Keret. But the more appropriate template may come from fellow Americans, writers who, by exploring the Diaspora Jew\’s relationship to Israel, have gone down this road before.
These are three experiences that have made me most hate being Jewish: