If you hate politics, I get it. Please move along. Just skip this post.
When I started this site, I feel like I made a promise to you and to myself that I wouldn't get political. If you want to know more of my thoughts on getting political, in a book that weirdly doesn't get very political, I urge you to read my book, Getting Political: Scenes from a Life in Israel. (Hey, even if you don't want to know my thoughts, pick up the book anyway! Seriously, it doesn't get very political...)
And yet.
And yet.
There are times when I feel like I have to get political.
Because when you move to Israel, you cease, in some important way, to be a "diaspora Jew" and become an “Israeli Jew.”
You live here, you walk the daled amos basically every single day of your life, you breathe the holy and sometimes stinky air.
You live with the noise, or block it out with a nonstop stream of English podcasts and audiobooks.
You vote in the elections.
And I don't even have a post I can link to about the elections, because I haven't talked about politics.
But just for a minute, I want to. So please cut me some slack.
Because I came across this article about how the Canadian diaspora, and presumably, the rest of the diaspora, can influence Israel.
And it scared me.
Spoiler alert: the way that diaspora Jews can influence Israel, apparently, is to participate in the World Zionist Congress coming up in October. In fairness, it's held in Jerusalem, so they
