What will you be thinking about on July 4th this year? By the time you finish reading this article, I hope the answer will be different. I was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. While studying in Israel, I met my future husband, a Chicago-born American who was very American through and through. We married in Toronto and moved to Israel—forever, or so we thought. A few short months into “forever,” the Toronto Jewish community made a passionate appeal for us to return.