For American jewelry, the formative trauma was arriving in America as a refugee with severe PTSD from Pogroms.

And then there was the trauma of coming here and starting from the bottom of the

social rung. And then there was a consolidated effort to rebuild this Jewishness as a modern American entity. What happened is

liberalism to build themselves as people who have sovereignty of their life, over their body,

over their destiny, who can actually be mobile.

So liberalism is an inseparable part from their Jewish identity. As people became less religious

and there was less religious content, the liberal element became stronger and stronger and

stronger

Jewish identity and then the radical left turns on them and becomes

anti-Semitic. Now where these kids going to go. It is 10 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7th here in New York City. In Israel it is Wednesday, November 8th as Israelis get

ready to start their day at 5 a.m. Since October 7th, or rather October 8th, I've had a series of conversations with friends and colleagues,

thought partners both here in the United States and in Israel, many of which have been very clarifying.

But there are three in particular over the last few days that have been especially clarifying

moments. The first was on Saturday night. There was a gathering of

Israeli Americans, Israelis who live here in New York City, to hear my friend Lior Razz give a talk.

Lior Razz give a talk.

Lior Raz is the co-creator and the star of the television show Fauta and some other productions.

And he's a character in my new book.

And Lior was in town to speak to these Israelis here about some very important

relief efforts and work being done in Israel to help with the recovery and help put the country back together post October 7th.

I actually was one of the only non-Israeli Americans at this event, and a number of the Israelis

came up to me and I would express them how horrified I was by what

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