But he said it can take realistic steps to close the gap, such as establishing a pluralistic prayer site at the Western Wall, long a sticking point between Israel’s Orthodox establishment and more liberal Jews in the U.S. “It’s a challenge for Israel.

“What Seth Rogen said is par for the course among our generation and the Israeli government has to wake up and see that their actions have consequences,” said Yonah Lieberman, spokesman for If Not Now, an American Jewish organization opposed to Israel’s entrenched occupation of the West Bank. We should. “You don’t keep all your Jews in one basket. When he emerges in the present day, he meets his great-grandson and is deeply disappointed, among other things, by how tangential Judaism is to his descendant’s life when it had been so central to his own. “You don’t keep something you’re trying to preserve all in one place especially when that place has proven to be pretty volatile. “They never tell you that ‘oh, by the way, there were people there.’ They make it seem like, ‘the (expletive) door’s open.’”. “I told him that many Israelis and Jews around the world were personally hurt by his statement, which implies the denial of Israel’s right to exist,” Herzog wrote. 'I’m trying to keep all these things safe; I’m going to put them in my blender and hope that that’s the best place!

And I understand how they could have been led to think that,” he said. Both agreed that no matter how they felt about any aspect of Judaism, it was too deeply ingrained in them to abandon. They just do.'
And it’s honestly something that I'm so glad was instilled in me from a young age, because if it wasn’t, I would constantly be shocked at how much motherf***ers hate Jews – because they do! Perhaps foreseeing the controversy their podcast would spark, Maron at one point confessed he was “frightened” to have such conversations publicly – and that the people he was afraid of were Jews.

But in recent years the country has faced a groundswell of opposition from young progressives, disillusioned by Israel’s aggressive West Bank settlement building, its perceived exclusion of liberal streams of Judaism and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cozy relationship with President Donald Trump. The prioritization of 'loving Israel' just doesn’t work. “Being Jewish is inextractable for us. Libby Lenkinski – who is vice president for public engagement at the New Israel Fund NGO, and is close to Rogen’s age – says what the movie star was describing “is extremely common among Jews my age and younger.” It's the driving force in the rise of groups like J Street U and IfNotNow, she added.