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...what it means to be a Jew in fewer words. It means to be sometimes frightened, sometimes a victim of prejudice. But more, it means to be basically warm, loving, determined, tolerant, and involved. In other words, to be a mensh, a person...
...Tell a Jew a joke and he says: "Let me tell it my way, it's better...
...Your article gave some very comforting statistics showing how Jews have made it financially in this country. How about some other statistics? Would you believe that Jews form the third largest poverty group in New York City, right after blacks and Puerto Ricans? Would you believe that there are some 300,000 Jews in New York City and approximately 900,000 nationwide who subsist at incomes below or near the federal poverty index? In fact I submit that the poor Jew's lot is worse than anyone else's, for "No one is poorer than the poor...
...sounds very modern-you might call it "doing your own thing." But he fails to look at what our greatest teacher, history, has shown us. For thousands of years, there have been many movements and forces which did not conform to Torah standards. Yet only one factor has united Jews through the dark centuries of the exile in every corner of the world-a belief in Torah. Anyone who left the Torah fold was inevitably swallowed up by a Jew's eternal enemy, assimilation. Rabbi Reines may want to do his own thing and still consider it Judaism...
...immigration. Her book reveals a shocking degree of bigotry in some of the most impressive intellectual figures of the day--as Henry Adams's pronouncement to a friend: "Poor Boston has fairly run up against it in the form of its particular Irish maggot, rather lower than the Jew, but more or less the same in appetite for cheese...