In a time of deep conflict in divide across the world, what does it mean to be Jewish in America today?

Jews are a very big, very loving... America today.

Jews are a very big, very loving, and pretty dysfunctional family.

Family is where we have our first experiences of true love, and they're often also the

place where we have our first experiences of true struggle.

One scholar in Jew says now is the time for a new look at the heart of the Jewish identity.

I'm Naila Boodoo and from Axios this is one big thing. It's been more than nine months since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack, in which

Israel says 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were killed, and another 253 taken hostage.

With Israel's ensuing war in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Authority estimates 38,000 Palestinians

many women and children have been killed.

And all of this has made many Jews around the world

consider the core of their faith and the role of Israel.

That's been especially visible when we've seen protests around the war,

with Jewish voices on both sides.

Harvard Legal and Religious Scholar, Noah Feldman, has been thinking more about his own faith in the last year,

especially as he watches political and intergenerational conflict play out around him.

What I'm seeing on campus, I think what a lot of us are seeing on campus,

are that young progressive Jews are saying,

you know what, we're not on board with supporting Israel.

And the Gen X and you know, even some of the millennial Jews are saying what are you guys talking about you know you're our kids or our siblings and we taught you to be committed to Israel and they're saying well no what you taught us was to believe that Judaism is committed to the values of social justice.

And that's what we take seriously.

And if we think Israel is incompatible with that, we are going to criticize Israel sometimes very severely.

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