Shmuel Rosner says it for me – in the NY Times no less. “I am the Jew who gets to see Jewish ingenuity unapologetically celebrated, Jewish material success flourish, Jewish might acknowledged and the Jewish language rejuvenated. I am the Jew who after 2,000 years gets to witness Jewish political independence.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/opinion/jewish-state-israel-70th-anniversary.html