Even the most balanced American coverage of the opening of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem, the one on the Fox News Channel, did not capture as much as an echo of what was really going on under the surface. Nevertheless, this hidden meaning was abundantly clear to both the Israelis and the Jewish Americans present at that momentous event; this was first and foremost a RELIGIOUS ceremony, a ceremony akin to the rededication of the Second Temple by the Maccabeans after its defilement by the Hellenists twenty-two centuries ago. Both the titular and the executive heads of the State of Israel, President Rivlin and Prime Minister Netanyahu, recited the “Shehecheyanu” prayer: “Blessed are You our God, King of the Universe, for giving us life, and sustaining us, and bringing us to this day.” Loud “amens” could be heard from the audience. Both leaders quoted from the Biblical Book of Nehemiah, reciting well-known passages relating to the return of the Judean elites from their seventy year-long Babylonian exile. From both the Israeli and the American delegations there was a lot of mutual signaling, understandable only by members of the Tribe, reaffirming the joint destiny of Israeli and American Jews.