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Mar. 4, 2021
If I had to distill into one word my reaction to Jotam Confino’s piece in Haaretz ( Immigrating to Israel Made Me Renounce Judaism ) where he recounts how Israel s immigration system challenged and cancelled his Jewish identity, that word would be: Duh!
Don’t get me wrong: I can totally relate to Confino’s ordeal, and I feel deep empathy for him. But precisely because I can relate so strongly, this is the word I would use. What Confino eloquently and passionately describes has been the reality for decades for hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking non-Jews in Israel, myself included.