Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound by Haim Chertok

Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound by Haim Chertok

By Haim Chertok

Stealing house is an now and then witty, from time to time grave, from time to time hopeful, and from time to time cynical, yet continually thought-provoking choice of autobiographical essays. This ebook is a man's daring but humble research of his personal offerings, relatively of his choice to renounce a modest, bucolic, and safe educational lifestyles in California for a good extra lucrative and significant one in Israel. those twenty-eight splendidly written essays go away no smooth topic untouched. Chertok exposes the materialistic self-esteem of many American assimilated Jews. He describes his reviews within the Israeli military and his transforming into misery with Israel's involvement in Lebanon. He bemoans Israel's faculties, he criticizes Israel's remedy of the Arabs. he's, in truth, an extraordinary chicken- a devoted Zionist and an observant Jew who despises narrowmindedness in any form or shape, even if it's cultural, social, left-win, right-wing, or non secular. This ebook is key studying not just for these excited by Israel or with the Jewish-American experience.Stealing domestic addresses common matters that experience involved each person in all international locations all through historical past. it's a booklet approximately discovering one's position within the world...without changing into complacent or self-righteous.

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I had taught what must have been her great or great-great grandson in one of my classes. He was a quiet young man who wore pointy cowboy boots and one prominent jeweled earring. Mrs. Zwang, we discovered, was the last Jew in her immediate family, the last for whom a rabbi would have to journey out to Coalinga to provide a Jewish burial. Her children and their descendants had long since filtered into a variety of local options. I briefly recalled the Einlands, a prominent family of Fresno converts whose grandfatherformerly Einsteinhad in the last century founded Fresno's largest local bank.

If not in this generation, then in the next, or the next. And our specifically Jewish current would flow and merge into larger and wider channels of the receptive American sea until it disappeared without a trace. After the Franklins' departure, the cheers from the nearby football field, where "our" team must have scored a Friday night touchdown, crashed against the walls of Shabbat more intrusively than usual. A few months thereafter we were taken aback by an item in The Fresno Bee. Fresno's retired Rabbi David Greenberg, an Page 24 apostle of ecumenism who had achieved fame during the 1940s when his radio conversations with a priest and a minister were picked up by the networks and broadcast nationally, had officiated at a funeral in Coalinga.

A. interstate, the vast Harris feedlot hosts about 50,000 head of cattle, well more than can be numbered in all of Israel. With their thousands of acres and livestock, the ranches of the American West overstimulate and overwhelm the popular Israeli imagination for whom Dallas still reigns as a supreme appetitive metaphor. Whereas most ranchhands are housed on the nearby ranches, some of the owners have family homes in Coalinga; several, in fact, were our immediate, Yale Avenue neighbors. They are a small but mightily influential segment of "Old Coalinga" stock.

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