I once identified Zach Braff as someone who'd make a great staff member for a Birthright Israel trip. But in this new article in Haaretz (brought to you via the all-knowing Harry and Jerusalemite), the English is a little weird, we learn that Zach recently made a trip to the homeland -- his first since he was a kid -- and was mightily impressed:
Braff says that when you come here, "you just feel
this amazing sense of community. We hear so much about Israel and
politics with the Palestinians and you feel so separate from it. So I
really wanted to see for myself." He says he was "lucky" to be able to
come and see things firsthand and to talk to Israelis. "As a Jew I
think it's really important to come to this place. There is such a
tremendous sense of community, tremendous bond for obvious reasons. I
don't know if Israelis have a sense of it because they live here, but I
love it."
Now that he's fallen in love with Israel, the article reports, he's thinking of creating a film that features "a story about an American Jew who visits Israel", and that he "says a story like what he has in mind is something he's never seen in a movie and thinks it will be really interesting."
Zach, wanna talk Israel? Give me a call. I'm even local now. I mean, seriously.
I would be very interested to see him take on this kind of project.
And yes, he needs to call you!
Posted by: Angela | November 26, 2008 at 03:04 AM