A friend forwarded me the following link: www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. It got me thinking about a parallel site which could be stuffjewishpeoplelike.com, and what lists and descriptions people might put there. To get you started, I am including some of the suggestions that other friends have already shared with me.
1. Guilt
2. Uh, more guilt
3. Guilt about feeling so much guilt
4. Anxiety
5. Anxiety about guilt
6. ...
Someone else shared:
1. Knowing Jews from other places, no matter how tangentially
2. Famous Jewish athletes, especially basketball players
3. California rolls with fake crab
From yet another friend: The #1 answer to stuff Jewish people like -- anti-Semitism.
And yet another in response to the above: Followed closely by "disliking other Jews"
While I don't necessarily endorse any of these responses, they are all pretty telling and I can't wait to see what gets added.
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Author, radio and TV talk show host, and President of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Brad Hirschfield is the author of 
eastcoastlady:
Mirror mirror on the wall...
Hard to face reality, yes lets talk about barley soup. Aren't people with integrity, honest people and those who are not bullsh*tters the same people (at a risk of being redundant).
Aren't people with integrity, honest people and those who are not bullsh*tters the same people (at a risk of being redundant).
Perhaps there is overlap. So what?
Acting morally, which Jews do less and less these days, ought to be the sole determinant of a claim to superiority.
Do you mean Israeli Jews?
American Jews?
British Jews?
Or, as your sentence reads, ALL Jews?
Jews love moral supremacy. Being the ultimate victim who is in such dire straits nobody can question his actions ever since. Self victimization is viewed by Jews as the ultimate ever lasting blank check. Jews need that evil single faced voodoo doll named Hitler/Arafat/Haman/Stalin/Nasralla. In absence of it Jews feel confused and unsure of their position in the world.
Every Jew in the Western world lost family - lots of family - in the Shoah. The memory of every precious Jewish soul is holy and must be preserved. Every possible action to prevent our babies and children from winding up in ovens must be taken. Never again - exactly.
You wouldn't understand. I know, I know, you say you're Israeli, but I don't buy that you're a Jew.
Scott,
You sound like a person who's heart is in the right place, I respect that. Fact is I'm both and Israeli and a Jew. Born and educated in Israel ,served 3 years in the Israli army and finished college there.
Love has many forms and the one Israel needs now is tough love. Sometimes your best friend is the one breaking the walls of denial and telling you what you need to hear instead of what you want to hear. A while ago there was a great history channel documentary on tv where a known historion said: "Protecting everything is protecting nothing" (Sun Tzu). Israel is streached too thin attempting to bite more than it can swallow. To me never again also means having Israel revert back to borders which it can control and protect. Believe it or not we are on the same side.
Giora
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