Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Wither American Jews

This is not appropriate:
The rate of intermarriage among US Jews is “like a second Holocaust,” Israel’s new minister of education said. Rafi Peretz made the statement at a cabinet meeting on July 1, Axios reported Tuesday, citing three people who were in the room. Peretz, a former chief rabbi of the Israeli army, is the leader of the Union of Right Wing Parties bloc. Peretz said the assimilation of Jews around the world and mostly in the US was “like a second Holocaust,” and also said that, due to intermarriages in the last 70 years, the Jewish people “lost 6 million people,” according to the report, which added that Peretz’s spokesman confirmed the account.
Oh hell, we don't know, maybe it's appropriate.

We ourselves are a product of intermarriage. To tell a family secret, my mother was Methodist.*

We know for a fact that our in-laws were relieved their daughter found a (half) Jewish guy. They lived in Delaware, a state with 7,000 Jews.

As noted previously in Hendrick Hudson High School one was either Irish, Jewish or Italian and being Jewish was no more or less remarkable than being anything else. In the old South Jews were welcomed as People of the Book. We know, out grandmother grew up on Baton Rouge, and later Waterproof Louisiana .

A gentile friend once pointed out to us that Jews have never before faced a threat like America. Nobody cares. 

*What movie am I riffing off of? You know the drill. 

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