“Proof that Washington Is Hostile to Jewish Life”
Aaron Keyak — April 22, 2009 – 1:40 pm | Israel Comments (1) Add a commentJeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic has a telling item that speaks of how Washington, DC is just not the place for the Jewish people.
Further Proof that Washington Is Hostile to Jewish Life
No, not the Jane Harman mess (sorry I’m not blogging on it more, but I’m busy with other journalism, and anyway the whole ridiculous AIPAC case makes me ill, because it shouldn’t even be a case).
This is why Washington is so un-Jewish. I meet David Ben-Gregory this morning for breakfast at Morty’s, a deli in my neighborhood, and I overhear a woman in the booth behind me ask her companion, “What kind of bread is challah?” except that she pronounces the “ch” like she’s saying “chapstick” (or “cholent,” not to introduce another foreign concept here). I don’t think she was Jewish, but it doesn’t matter—in New York, everyone knows how to pronounce challah. I’m sure by now that that 16-year-old Somali pirate in a New York jail cell knows how to pronounce challah.
Sometimes I feel like a stranger in a strange land. I want to move back to my true homeland, which is to say, 92nd St. and West End Avenue.
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Actually this proves that Washington DC draws all kinds of people from all around the country and the world. Just as you don’t know of every cultural aspect of someone who is Korean, Mexican, or even British not everyone here knows of ours.
From your written statement it sounds like you decided to put down this person for not knowing about your culture and you didn’t step up to the plate to help with intercultural relations. YOU missed a teaching opportunity. She was brave enough to ask someone. Where was your courage and cultural pride to answer her question?