As I write this essay in frantic desperation, I think of all the pressure and stress I have dealt this past semester. This includes everything from the process of moving into a new apartment during finals week, to the ups and downs of relationships throughout the past few months. None of that, however, really compares to some of the events that were experienced in the book “Home to Stay, One American Family’s Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel”. The book is based on emails the author wrote to his family back in the United States. This book commences with an American family in Los Angeles, whose roots lie deep in Jewish culture and religion. Daniel Gordis is a Jewish professor who is invited to study in Israel for a
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The modern conflict between the Arabs and the Israelites as explained in the book had their beginnings in the early 1900’s with the Balfour Declaration as Britain promoted the idea of a Jewish homeland in Israel. This brought much uncertainty as many groups other than Palestine and Israel were watching to see what moves would be made. The official declaration of independence occurred in 1948 which led to a war between the Arabs and the …show more content…
“What is it about this land that blinds us to the very real and often devastating cost of our love for it, that leads us to ignore the horrific and repeated story of death for the sake of keeping it, a death that often inexplicably robs us of our children, and children of their lives.” (188) Middle east and Israeli culture are a very tight knitted about families and friends. When a party begins, everyone is welcome to join and will come, and the Gordis family could sense this in the people they came to meet. The conflict which continues to rage on is affecting families and children and communities. It can be hard to grasp as an American all that the people experience in that part of the world, especially where we deal with racial conflicts here in the United States that thankfully have not led to the violence found in Israel. These ethnic conflicts are found all over the world, and one has to wonder what the future holds for the younger generations as they are raised in these hostile environments. Ukraine, for example, is a good example in Europe of a country which is dealing with conflicts as a result of ethnic issues, and it has affected many of the people that live
The modern conflict between the Arabs and the Israelites as explained in the book had their beginnings in the early 1900’s with the Balfour Declaration as Britain promoted the idea of a Jewish homeland in Israel. This brought much uncertainty as many groups other than Palestine and Israel were watching to see what moves would be made. The official declaration of independence occurred in 1948 which led to a war between the Arabs and the …show more content…
“What is it about this land that blinds us to the very real and often devastating cost of our love for it, that leads us to ignore the horrific and repeated story of death for the sake of keeping it, a death that often inexplicably robs us of our children, and children of their lives.” (188) Middle east and Israeli culture are a very tight knitted about families and friends. When a party begins, everyone is welcome to join and will come, and the Gordis family could sense this in the people they came to meet. The conflict which continues to rage on is affecting families and children and communities. It can be hard to grasp as an American all that the people experience in that part of the world, especially where we deal with racial conflicts here in the United States that thankfully have not led to the violence found in Israel. These ethnic conflicts are found all over the world, and one has to wonder what the future holds for the younger generations as they are raised in these hostile environments. Ukraine, for example, is a good example in Europe of a country which is dealing with conflicts as a result of ethnic issues, and it has affected many of the people that live