It s good to be home !!

On the flight from Heathrow to to tel aviv,it hit me how ironic it is that the one time of the year that you can find Jews and Muslims and Christians together is on Christmas Day,either on the picturesque ski slopes of New England ,or on planes headed to Israel. The Christians who are working the holiday shifts,either because they volunteered for double or triple pay,or had the bad luck to be chosen,are all disgruntled and moody. Though the temporary theological solidarity that the Jews and Muslims share is based more on the Christian faith that we don't embrace and less on our abrahamic roots ,it s still something I guess . Then I wake up in Israel and read in the morning paper about an Arab bakery in Jaffa that starts making Sufganiyot a month before Chanukah and is still making them now ,selling about two hundred and fifty of them a day ! Given all that how hard would it be to just acknowledge our eternal connection to our homeland ארץ ישראל ,then we could celebrate annually by establishing dec 25th as a day when Jews and Muslims all over the world eat Sufganiyot together . Until that day comes however, we must do everything in our power to be unconditionally supportive of the only place in the world that every Jew can really call home!