I read "Israel Is Real" while preparing for my son's bar mitzvah. By "preparing," I mean talking to tent people and mailing invites. On the spiritual side, I've done my usual shirk: ducking services, doodling during sessions with the rabbi and dodging queries about my own bar mitzvah of wretched memory, celebrated in a gloomy temple filled with old men waiting for me to blunder. ...
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