With a ceasefire in place, Israelis tired but resilient are turning their attention to rebuilding.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., college-age Jews are still facing peer pressure and a constant stream of anti-Israel misinformation, on campus, online, and everywhere they turn.

They can keep arguing about Israel from thousands of miles

away or they can do the one thing that actually works. Go on a birthright trip and experience Israel

for themselves. They will come back more grounded, more confident, and more connected to who they are.

So if your family member has been on the fence

or if you've been waiting for the right moment,

this is it because Israel needs them and they need Israel.

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Yeah. One Trip Changes Everything. You are listening to an art media podcast.

We need to be able to have a discussion about our very real problems

without playing into the hands of people trying to destroy the country.

So I always try to ask when I'm looking at different kinds of discourse, is this person trying to make Israel better or is this person trying to make Israel go away? If the discussion is about how to make Israel go away, which it often is, and I think that's the discussion that underlies this essay in the New York Times, I'm not interested in that discussion, and I don't think I should

be expected to have it. If the discussion is about how to make Israel a better country, a more

moral country, a more successful country, a better place to live for Jewish citizens, for Muslim

citizens, I'm very much interested in having the discussion, which is, I think, the most

important discussion to have.

Thank you. I think the most important discussion to have. It's 7.30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 12th here in New York City, it is 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12th in Israel.

Before we get into the description for today's episode, I just wanted to provide a warning. Some of the topics and details we

discussed today are difficult to listen to. On Monday, the New York Times published an opinion

column by Nicholas Christoph titled, The Silence that Meets

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