Who is the junkie in this deal?

Michael Oren, the new Israeli Ambassador to the US, tells Jeffrey Goldberg about the complex relationship between America and Israel:

Israel needs the political and economic support of American Jewry, and American Jewry increasingly needs the spiritual infusion of the Jewish state. … In recent years, we have found that a 10-day visit to the state of Israel by American Jewish youth does more for Jewish identity than seven years in Hebrew school.

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