To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account

Here you sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son, that her sister lost children in the 1973 war…in the domestic ceremony of passed dishes and filled glasses the thoughts ofa destructive enemy are hard to grasp. What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life left unchanged by the creation of a Jewish State: ‘You cannot take your right to love for granted…