My dark, curly hair was a constant reminder of my minority status. I never saw this as a negative aspect to my identity. On the contrary, I relished my membership in a global club of Jewish people all over the world...
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this is s lovely article, and one I can relate to, on Shabbos, I find myself wishing other Jews Gut Shabbos on my way home from shul. But when I see people on Shabbos who are dressed casually it is hard for me to pick up on my Jewdar. However, the Jews i have the hardest time relating to are the Jews who hate Israel, the Jews that protest FOR the Palestinians, the Jews who willfully or unknowingly ignore the history of our beloved homeland. Are they non-believers, misguided, products of Quaker schools that seems to claim our people. People who don't send their kids to Jewish school because they want 'diverstiy', yet who frequently make up the majority of the school population anyway. I hear what Stacey is saying, I just don't know how I can find love in my heart for some of my people when they seem so bent on seeing our homeland destroyed
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A smile... costs nothing, and it's effect can be immeaserable...
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Just keep smiling. Don't let the other people get you down. Be Happy and show it-After all you're a Jew!!
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Recently, a woman called me because her son has been seeing an Asian woman for five years. She was not fearful of an interracial relationship with grandchildren who would look different from her and her husband. No, she wanted reassurance that if her son's girlfriend, who's begun to ask questions about the Jewish faith and its laws, were to convert, would she be accepted by the outside Jewish world? So, I reminisced about my arrival in a WASPy town where strangers often assumed that I was the nanny for my curly-haired toddler. However, while I would wear a non-descript beret or cap during the week, on Shabbat, I wear a more festive hat suitable for services. Over the 18 years I've lived in my town, I'm still tickled and delighted that I would be greeted by strangers who would call out to me, "Gut Shabbos" or Gut Yom Tov!" How do they know that I'm Jewish? My face looks like no other in shul and on the streets, I appear overdressed for a day when others jog by in Spandex shorts. Their sign is the modest and festive clothing I don for the weekly and seasonal holidays. I become one of the Jewish tribe by my adherence to the norms of religious attire.
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I relish the practical simplicity of the article. We live in S. Kodiak Island Alaska. We are the only jewish family here living with Aleutic decendants. I'm a mom of three boys....one is bar-mitzvah and 18...the other two havent been able to yet. I like practical....I'm trying to live as a jewish women at work, home, and in the community and stay myself as a jewish woman. I drive a 4-wheeler to work, skiff for fish(local meat market); and thankfully I dont have to haul water for this house we live in. My husband and two older sons commercial fish in the summers...G_D willing. I'm trying to keep the "remembering" going in my home. I'm very thankful for this web site. Its helps me feel not so alone at times. Have a beautiful day.
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i am and always will be thinking of the fate of all the jews. It all starts with statements that you made. i thank you and all of the jews that thank our ONE AND ONLY. all the best.
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