Do I believe that there are questions that should never be asked?

An effort to not disappoint my Jewish mother.

We as Jews are people of the book. In America, we often talk about ourselves as belonging to a “culture that values education.” My relation to Israel/Palestine changed when I experienced being told that general critical thinking skills (the skills that I went to my “good college” to learn) were somehow not applicable to the conflict. My mother, who I lo…