What a new play gets right about ‘Birthright’ and our anguished Jewish conversation - opinion
Jonathan Spector’s “Birthright,” now at MCC Theater, uses the free Israel trip as the starting point for decades of wrestling with Israel, Judaism and friendship
Assessment
A new play uses the Birthright trip as a dramatic device to explore the long-term emotional and ideological fallout of that formative experience. The review suggests the work captures the unresolved tensions within Jewish identity and the difficulty of sustaining friendships across political divides. The key question is whether the play will resonate beyond the specific Birthright context to speak to broader Jewish communal fractures.