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We’re Jews, We’re Not White, We Define Ourselves | Jewish Journal

Last Sunday, I took my son Alexander, 9, to hear a performance of the Hebrew Choir Festival, which “aims to promote Hebrew as the common global Jewish language.” He didn’t want to go — it was a gorgeous afternoon — but I increasingly prioritize stuff like this.

This is a great article about an important subject. When I was growing yo 30-40 years ago, race wasn't NEARLY as much of an issue as it is now. It was in the 60s and before, and has become increasingly important since the 90s. But we're regressing. We never considered ourselves to be "white" (a completely meaningless term anyway). "White" people were the WASPS and other Christians. How could we be "white" when we were never really a part of "white" society (we have different holidays, different names, and yes - a different language, even if we didn't speak it), and they were putting us in ovens just a few decades before? None of the Holocaust survivors I knew thought of us as anything but Jewish. The idea that we are "white," isn't one of acceptance. It's an attempt to erase our identities because we are, literally, living proof that racism can't be boiled down to skin color alone.

And never would I have dreamed that there would be a day in America where Jews are routinely called "white supremacists." It is the one of the most vile things you can say about a Jewish person. And where are the "white Muslims" and "white Arabs"? The fact that you don't hear those terms demonstrates what this is really about: de-legitimizing the Jewish claim to Israel, our ancestral homeland, where we are the indigenous people. "Sorry," but none of us are Europeans. We know that intuitively, but the Europeans made that fact more than clear to use for millennia, and they continue to today.

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Dershowitz: Jews Must Never Be Afraid to Use Their Well-Earned Power

No other group is ever accused of having too much power and influence. That false claim – dating back to times and places where Jews had little or no influence – is an anti-Semitic trope that tells us more about the anti-Semites who invoke it that it

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There Is No Such Thing as a ‘White Jew.’ This is why.

From the blog of Dani Ishai Behan at The Times of Israel

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Cherokee Nation Blasts Warren For DNA Stunt: 'Inappropriate And Wrong'

The Cherokee Nation blasted Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren for trotting out the results of a DNA test she claims prove she is part Cherokee.

Yeah. Obviously it's wrong. If she is Native American with a probable 1/1024 native American genetic component, ethnicity means nothing because we ALL have small traces of other ethnicity. That logic, as is the case with all logic, is meaningless to democrats who have adopted identity politics as their primary political weapon.

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What does it mean to be of mixed race in America? A new book and exhibition aim to answer

Natalie Coughlin and Nathan Adrian are swimmers — Coughlin the first woman to swim the 100-meter backstroke in under a minute, Adrian as an eight-time Olympic medalist. But they dropped those identities for another: hapa, a mixed-race person, photograph