In this final episode, Violet moves from the protest to the family living room, confronting her father and her longtime Israel-supporting grandmother with her beliefs and activism. Their candid, heartfelt conversations expose the generational divides in how each of them understands Israel and the Zionist idea: divisions that echo the broader fracture reshaping American Jewish life. Can honest dialogue begin to heal the modern Jewish-American family?

Further reading

• Robert Mnookin, The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World. PublicAffairs, 2018.

• Jordan Muchnick & Elaine Kamarck, “The Generation Gap in Opinions toward Israel.” Brookings Institution, 9 November 2023.

• Ezra Klein, “Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another.” The New York Times Opinion, 20 July 2025.
• NPR News, “What Does Israel Mean to American Jews?”. 15 October 2025.

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My Home Fronts is hosted and recorded by Romy Neumark.

Editing by Noa Amiel Lavie.

Sound design by Tina Tobey Mack.

Art work by Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi, courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort Gallery, NYC.

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