THE FEDERALIST
How To Revive Jewish Support For Israel
by Jonathan Bronitsky
April 5, 2016

…Assimilation, broadly understood, is the obvious reason younger Jews aren’t as interested in Israel as their forebears. They weren’t around during the Holocaust and they didn’t witness the Jewish state’s security crises in 1967 and 1973. Further, they didn’t grow up in an age of synagogue bombings and college admissions quotas. Life for them has been just like life for other Americans their age: yoga class and organic protein shakes. Yes, they’ve been treated well by America. Actually, they’ve been treated so well that Irving Kristol felt it necessary to note that intermarriage, not anti-Semitism, was “the greatest single threat” to their community. (That was in 1991 when intermarriage was approaching 40 percent. Since 2000, the rate has been well over 70 percent.) READ MORE