Jul
5
Israeli expo in NYC
At the Jewish Agency’s 2010 Aliyah Expo in New York last week, people asked one another, “When is your flight?”—no if’s about it. Many planned to move to a country that seems increasingly intent on ostracizing itself from the international community. And yet, during the four hours I spent at the Aliyah Expo, I heard just a single concern. “My husband would love to have a goat,” one woman with a thick New York accent told a Jewish Agency aliyah specialist, lamenting, “but you have to live on a moshav for a goat!”
…Continue reading at the Nation Institute’s Mondoweiss.
