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This Is How They Roll

The first step is getting in.

by
Irin Carmon
June 12, 2012
Newark Airport: the traditional gateway to the holy land(Marc Tracy)
Newark Airport: the traditional gateway to the holy land(Marc Tracy)

Each day, The Scroll will feature a post from our new Birthright Israel travel blog, The Roll. Get on the bus here.

Tablet staffers on board with Birthright Israel are just kicking off their “Extreme” journey, but in the meantime, there’s an essential rite of passage: The series of ever-innovative, probing security questions. A security imperative? Sure, but also a convenient extension of culture where everything is everyone’s business.

Irin Carmon is a senior correspondent at New York magazine and co-author of The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her Twitter feed is @irin.