It's the Brian Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. With us now Mark Tracy,

who covers arts and culture and also the American Jewish community for the New York Times.

He previously covered contemporary Jewish life and culture for the Jewish News Organization

tablet, and he co-edited the 2012 book Jewish Jocks, a collection of 50 original essays about Jewish

sports figures.

In the last few months in this post-October

7th world, Mark has been writing periodically about the dynamics within American Jewish families

around how to think about the war in Gaza and how to think about Israel generally at this moment

in history. Just last week, he had an article called Navigating Israel's War

when one spouse is Jewish and one is not. That's in the context of so many intermarriages

involving Jewish and non-Jewish spouses for generations now in the United States, so many mixed

couples. He had one called, is Israel part of what it means to be Jewish,

exploring that from various modern-day perspectives? And he had one called Jewish-American

families confront a generational divide over Israel. We'll talk about that one the most now

and invite Jewish listeners of different generations to call in and have part of what may be a difficult conversation that you're having in your family.

In that article, Mark notes that Gen Z and young millennial Jews often see Israel as an occupying power, oppressing Palestinians, a shock to their parents, he writes,

who tend to see it as an essential haven fighting for survival. So these generational divides

among Jews and also among many Democrats of any background have potential implications for the

presidential election, too, so they are potentially

very consequential in that way. So we'll start there with Mark Tracy, who covers arts and culture

and the American Jewish community for the New York Times. Mark, thanks for joining us. Welcome to

WNYC. Thanks for having me, and I should also shout out a couple of those articles were co-authored

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