Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.

Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the region and the Middle Eastern countries bordering Israel are Arab, which is a totally different society. Even though Israel doesn't exactly feel like the United States, by comparison to its neighbors it's very Western.

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.