If you are Jewish, what stops you from moving to israel?

[Anonymous]

Honest question. i'm not jewish but my family is clearly in the US because our home country isn't developed enough. If it was one of the twenty most developed countries in the world, we would leave. The US is an economy, not a home or a civilization.

I'm curious given the option that jewish people have, and israel's economic strength and development, that jewish people choose to stay in the US.

[Anonymous]

I was born here, I feel American, not Israeli.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was born here, I feel American, not Israeli.

OP here - I was born here as well.

But my parents were not.

[Anonymous]

My family has been here for 4 generations. No one has ever lived in Israel. We do not speak the language. The standard of living is lower.

[Anonymous]

Why are you asking this only of Jews and not, say, Canadians or Germans currently living in the U.S.?

[Anonymous]

I'm curious why you stay in a place that is not a home or even a civilization when you could be home improving and developing your country?

[Anonymous]

I’m not Israeli. I’m American. My Jewish family is from Russia and Ukraine, not Israel. Plus Israel is essentially a dictatorship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you asking this only of Jews and not, say, Canadians or Germans currently living in the U.S.?

Israel is a civilizational country, canada isn't.

You could open up the question to germans though, true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you asking this only of Jews and not, say, Canadians or Germans currently living in the U.S.?

Agree. What a weird question. Of course the US is a home.

[Anonymous]

My cousin moved to Israel with her family. She likes it there, but the way Judaism is practiced in Israel is very different than the way that many American Jews practice. There is no equivalent to Reform Judaism or even Egalitarian Conservative Judaism. Since I couldn’t practice my kind of Judaism there and all I have in common with most Israelis is a religion, it doesn’t seem like a good fit for me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you asking this only of Jews and not, say, Canadians or Germans currently living in the U.S.?

Israel is a civilizational country, canada isn't.

You could open up the question to germans though, true.

Canadians would beg to differ.

Israel is a nation-state bent on annihilating anyone who lives there who isn’t Jewish. It’s almost fascist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My family has been here for 4 generations. No one has ever lived in Israel. We do not speak the language. The standard of living is lower.

Is it? Seemed pretty high to me when I was in Haifa and Tel Aviv for work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was born here, I feel American, not Israeli.

OP here - I was born here as well.

But my parents were not.

No one in my family has ever lived in Israel. My ancestors are from eastern Europe, not Israel.

[Anonymous]

My ancestry goes back to the Mayflower here (intermarriage). All sides of my family go back at least 5 generations here. I have many family members and relatives who served in the military here.

The last time an ancestor of mine lived in Israel was probably 2000+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious why you stay in a place that is not a home or even a civilization when you could be home improving and developing your country?

The scale required at this time is too large for any one person to effect a change.