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Ben M. Freeman
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“To be Jewish is to be part of a four-thousand-year-old ancient civilisation that has contributed untold marvels to the world.”
― Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride
― Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride
“We cannot simply pass on feelings if they are not anchored by something more substantial. Whether we call our action ‘ritual’ or ‘practice’ and whether it is rooted in God, our peoplehood or both we must find a way to be actively Jewish.”
― Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People
― Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People
“Almost all Ashkenazi Jews today are the descendants of 300 Jewish individuals who survived numerous genocides by the crusaders in the Middle Ages. Most Ashkenazi Jews today understand the continuous cycle of violent and often genocidal Jew-hatred faced by their families in Central and Eastern Europe, and why they had to flee this region in the 19th and early 20th centuries even before the Shoah.”
― Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride
― Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride
“Despite what the non-Jewish world tells us, we have a choice. We can reject who we are or we can reject the non-Jewish world’s idea of who we are.”
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“We must never warp or change our identities to fit in. We do not need to make ourselves ‘acceptable’ because we are acceptable. Yet we cannot force the non-Jewish world to see that. This is their journey. Our journey is one of Jewish pride.”
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“Our journey is not about fighting antisemitism, it is about rejecting the shame of antisemitism and rejecting the non-Jewish world’s inaccurate definitions of what it means to be a Jew. It’s an exploration of Jewish identity, based on Jewish values, Jewish ideas and Jewish experiences.”
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