Last week, I watched a gap-year student stand in a Jerusalem supermarket aisle, phone in one hand and a basket in the other. She was not buying anything dramatic: yogurt, fruit, shampoo and a coffee for the bus ride back. Still, she looked surprised by the total. “I thought I had enough for the week,” she said.

Many young adults beginning a gap year, yeshiva or midrasha........

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