Why Mayim Bialik Supports Israel

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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.

shabbat shalom, israel.

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— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 11, 2014

apparently wishing a happy sabbath to my family and friends and people in israel constitutes being a baby killer…. http://t.co/5Pai6VXDuD

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 11, 2014

Yes, I will be joining Jews all over the world in reciting the Shema at noon today I believe it is.

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) July 28, 2014

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:

I need to feel like I’m doing something.

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

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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