So what was a nice Jewish girl from St. Louis doing traveling the Arab world dressed in a hijab, armed with a notebook and tape recorder?  If you were Leah Soibel in 2001, it was to learn how public opinion is formed and shaped on Israel, the Middle...

Rebecca Bardach and her husband, Eliot Goldstein, grew up on opposite coasts — she in Berkeley, Calif.; he in Silver Spring, Md. — attending a combination of Jewish day and public schools. After each made aliyah in the late 1990s and married, they...