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Why Mayim Bialik Supports Israel

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Anne Cohen

By Anne Cohen August 1, 2014

Mayim Bialik has been active on social media since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, sending thoughts and prayers to her friends and family in Israel.

But in a personal piece posted on her Kveller blog on Thurday, the “Big Bang Theory” explained her decision to send money to the Israel Defense Forces. The list is simple and to the point:

  1. I need to feel like I’m doing something.

  2. No matter what your politics are, soldiers sent into war zones deserve to be protected from enemy fire.

  3. Every soldier is someone’s son or daughter. Every single one.

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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