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When Daniel Gordis, his wife, Elisheva, and their three young children abandoned a safe and comfortable home in Los Angeles to move halfway around the world and find a new life in Israel, the future looked bright. It was 1998, Ehud Barak had just been elected prime minister, and peace appeared to be only a few tough negotiations away. Two years later, hope had turned to terror, as the rattle of machine-gun fire perforated the night and the frightened, exhausted children clung desperately to their stuffed animals in fitful sleep.

Too many people profit from us remaining divided or hoping we are so overcome by despair. They do not want us to take action to fix the problems in our lives. We have lost control of the political discourse within the United States, and now we see those that disagree with us as enemies. But we agree upon more than our media and politicians would like to admit. Once we learn to see the other side as a potential ally, we can work together to fix the problems that we are facing.