{"id":34653,"date":"2017-08-18T19:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=34653"},"modified":"2017-08-18T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T23:05:19","slug":"an-open-letter-to-our-fellow-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=34653","title":{"rendered":"“An open letter to our fellow Jews”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among my various identities, I am a Jew. But since I’m so secular I’m not even an atheist, I don’t think about it much.<\/p>\n

I don’t worship, don’t belong to any Jewish organization. I have Jewish friends and some of them are religious. I also have non-Jewish friends. But I do not have friends who are any kind of racist.<\/p>\n

I was definitely a Jew a few years ago when a couple of people I considered close friends began dripping little poisoned thoughts I knew were anti-Semitic. I would have canceled the friendship right then except one of them was dying. She died. I did not go to her funeral and haven’t seen her husband since.<\/p>\n

And of course I’m definitely a Jew when I look at the horror in the White House and what this particular sort of hideous, destructive amorality has produced: Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

So I’m reprinting this from noted writers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in an open letter on Medium. Because it pretty much says everything I as a Jew would like to say to Trump’s Jews, except better.<\/p>\n

Source: AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR FELLOW JEWS \u2013 Michael Chabon \u2013 Medium<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among my various identities, I am a Jew. But since I’m so secular I’m not even an atheist, I don’t think about it much. I don’t worship, don’t belong to any Jewish organization. I have Jewish friends and some of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1175],"tags":[1859,1856,1825,1858,1860,1857,1855,1861],"class_list":["post-34653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-anti-semitism","tag-ayelet-waldman","tag-charlottesville","tag-i-am-a-jew","tag-jews-in-the-white-house","tag-medium","tag-michael-chabon","tag-trumps-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t