In a world of globalized alienation, secular and religious Israelis alike remain proudly connected to their story as a people, through rituals as old as the Passover Seder and as new as the letters soldiers write before they go into battle
How do Israelis go from fighting in Gaza to making lunches for their children, knowing that any day now they are likely to be called back into the army? In Ari Kalker’s case, with help from Maimonides.
“I’ve always appreciated it that men and women serve together,” said Marissa Avram
‘The overwhelming majority of Israelis have stood in the young soldier’s boots, and can empathize with the confusion, the fear, and the rage that accompany the fog of war’
Her Majesty’s finest finally spotted the real threat: Jews
