Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Contrary to appearance, though, it’s not the acquisition of stuff that I’m after. In Israel, for instance, it was the participation in commerce that I was interested in: getting my bag searched on the way in to the store, tripping over Hebrew slang while fending off vulture-like salespeople, being ruefully grateful that I wound up on the privileged side of the racial profiling coin. Whatever item I walked out with would serve as a symbolic reminder of having been in a different place, and of the ways in which my daily American life...
...began dating two months later, after their first kiss at a Scholars reunion. Engagement came two months after. Each wore silver rings with a quotation from the Song of Solomon in Hebrew: “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine...
...welcoming ceremony is undercut each year by the cantor’s hijacking of the traditional tunes we know by heart. In their place, he substitutes unfamiliar and operatic renditions, ostensibly of the specific High Holiday melodies. Now, we’re the first to admit that our Hebrew is far from fluent: much of the Gates of Repentance prayerbook remains a mystery to us. We glance around quizzically at our more devout brethren during services—what is the thing when they bend their knees and bob their heads? But we can recall a select few prayers from...
...thought Princeton already had that covered. Falwell’s law school, an arm of his esteemed Liberty University, will educate its students in a “principled Christian approach to the practice of law”—as opposed to the God-hating, ass-ramming, Hebrew approach over at Harvard Law. Falwell’s 61 pupils have already completed student orientation, which we imagine was most likely heterosexual...
...immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting pot to be seen in this immigrant experience, boiling everyone down to the same temperature; Jen knows America is far too messy for that...