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...Despite being a relatively observant Jew, it's difficult for me to believe in divine intervention," he said...
...current unease concerns her identity as a Catholic martyr. Christian conversion is a delicate subject to Jews, since historically it often took place under duress. Although Stein's conversion was clearly voluntary, her "atonement" declaration rankles. (It also contradicts the current Pope's repeated description of the Jews as "elder brothers in faith.") But what most bothers the critics is the assumption that Stein's death resulted from her Catholicism. Witnesses reported that when she tried to confess her faith, an Auschwitz guard rebuffed her with the words, "You damned Jew." Thus her canonization strikes some as the hijacking...
...half Irish. Why are you such a big Jew...
...never saw myself as a big Jew until people started saying, "Hey. You're a big Jew." I happen to have those Jewish features that have kept our people down for so many years. I'm very proud of my Irish side also...
...spoke out against the current tendency to divide American politics along ethnic lines. "I have spoken of political identity. Too often one has to assert oneself in the political arena as a woman, as a Jew, as a color...