Status Updates From (((Semitism))): Being Jewis...

today the quote that stuck out to me is “the Torah tells us: Welcome the stranger, for you were strangers in the Land of Egypt”. I also think it’s interesting how intertwined the American Jewish identity and Israel has become. also i know i’m a slow reader

“To stand up to creeping totalitarianism, we needn’t throw ourselves under the tank treads. We just need to not play the game.”

“Had ordinary Germans and Poles and Ukrainians and Austrians and French people not played along, had consumers continued to shop in Jewish establishments and gotten their checkups with Jewish doctors, maybe, just maybe, history would have been altered even a little bit, and the Final Solution would not have been quite so final.”

“We are in a golden age of going through the motions, but we have made no real progress in grounding the People of Israel in a moral purpose. Our return to religiosity is tactical, borne of a desire to connect a wandering Jewish people to the synagogue and to identity. But while it has given many Jews an aura of authenticity, it has not enriched our theology.”