My daughter is on a trip to Israel with her eighth-grade class, and I’m conflicted

“As I write these words, my 14-year-old daughter is in Israel with her eighth-grade day school class. I don’t know what to think about the trip. Are such trips a good idea for American Jews? Is it something I should welcome for my daughter? How much laundry will she bring back?”

I wrote a piece for the Forward about what a different approach to the Israel trip might look like.

Read more: https://forward.com/scribe/402107/my-daughters-eighth-grade-class-is-in-israel-and-im-conflicted/