Flash forward to my days in graduate school in physiology at the University of Chicago. Need I explain to anyone the connection between the University of Chicago and modern scholarship by people who happened to be Jewish? If so I will do so. Suffice it to say that in the lab I worked to get my PhD were two people who I interacted with every day and we set up a study group in math and did our research as a team. One was Howie Nash who went on to become a member of the National Academy of Science and the other was Dan Agin who is now a well known author and blogger on the Huffington site. It was Dan who convinced me to do my post doctoral training with Kedem and Katchalsky in Israel.
So I packed up my family and we went to live in Israel in 1963. We spent two years there only to cut a three year Fellowship short to come home to work against the war in Vietnam.
My kids were 2 and 5 when we arrived in Israel and they were in the preschool that was everywhere in Israel at that time. The government was socialist and I fell in love with socialism. My kids were involved in every holiday and we were too. It was delightful.
I really do not tolerate "religion" well any more. The evils the "Christians" have spawned make me see them as a negative force in our human family. Yet out of all my experiences I only remember good from my encounters with the Jewish culture.
Today I am revulsed by Israel and its adoption of fascism. Yet the Jewish culture I remember is wonderful! Why have they destroyed it?
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