I am a Jew and just want to come home
February 25, 2022
(JTA) - Eight days after I was born, I had a brit. I was a Jew, and that's what Jews do. Well, many do it anyway; Jews who are not observant may not, but that wasn't my family. We kept Shabbat. We had the best meals and wine during Passover. And on Yom Kippur, at a young age there was no excuse for me not to afflict my soul, my mom said. There I was, on the Day of Atonement, a little young boy starving and crying in the shul, like everyone else.
When I told my rabbi I wanted to make aliyah, to live in Israel, he was for it.
But both of us are just shocked by the Israeli government's decisio...
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