(National Post - Canada) Christie Blatchford - A group of 94 young Canadians arrived in Israel last week, part of the Birthright Israel program. I was in the audience as South African-born educator Avraham Infeld told the group, "Israel is not just another country. You want to visit another country, go to Spain! You come to Israel to touch your own soul." And indeed, what he had to say resonated as powerfully with me, a 50-something, agnostic non-Jew, in Israel on a brief mission organized by the United Jewish Federation of Toronto.
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