Your column has touched me deeply, for I can empathize with the sense of separation from family which you've described so eloquently. My wife and I too, have moved across an ocean, she from Switzerland, and I from Israel, to New York City, almost exactly 33 years ago and if I’d tell you that it was always easy I’ll be lying to you. Yes Asher, we too have missed our families and our kids their grandparents. As a child of Holocaust survivors who could never enjoy the type of love only grandparents can provide, I also felt a sense of guilt at times for depriving my children of what the Germans have deprived me of, but in life, we all make choices, and now, as my daughter serves in the IDF some 6000 miles away, we too tell her how proud we are of her decision to emigrate to Israel no matter how hard it is for us.

Your column has touched me deeply, for I can empathize with the sense of separation from family which you've described so eloquently. My wife and I too, have moved across an ocean, she from Switzerland, and I from Israel, to New York City, almost exactly 33 years ago and if I’d tell you that it was always easy I’ll be lying to you. Yes Asher, we too have missed our families and our kids their grandparents. As a child of Holocaust survivors who could never enjoy the type of love only grandparents can provide, I also felt a sense of guilt at times for depriving my children of what the Germans have deprived me of, but in life, we all make choices, and now, as my daughter serves in the IDF some 6000 miles away, we too tell her how proud we are of her decision to emigrate to Israel no matter how hard it is for us.