I simply do not understand this fashion-fad of Jew-hatred. I grew up in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s - in the schools I went to, the Jewish kids were the majority, and I loved their cultural difference from my own, which I also loved.
New York City was a fine place to grow up - when I did it. I would no more raise a child th…
I simply do not understand this fashion-fad of Jew-hatred. I grew up in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s - in the schools I went to, the Jewish kids were the majority, and I loved their cultural difference from my own, which I also loved.
New York City was a fine place to grow up - when I did it. I would no more raise a child there now than I would expose it naked to a pack of starving coyotes.
I’m with you on this, Ellen. I spent my time from the 5th grade through most of the 8th grade on Staten Island and in Jersey. I was a transient, being a military brat, and I learned so much about Jewish culture and customs from those schools I attended. I even lived in Leonardo, New Jersey for about a year and a half, small town that became known for movies by Kevin Smith, who grew up in Red Bank. Clerks was filmed in Leonardo. Course I was long gone by then but I loved that place! Learned a lot about Italian culture there.
If one grew up in that area, in that time, one has, I believe, honorary status as part Jewish, part Italian, part Irish, part Puerto Rican, and part black, so long as one had sufficient exposure and interaction with these cultures.
It was a time in which black women complimented my mother on the manners she had raised my sister and me to have. "They remind me of little black girls." And my mother acknowledged that black mothers raised their children with beautiful manners.
Ou sont les nieges d'antan? (I hope I got the spelling of the last word correctly.)
I simply do not understand this fashion-fad of Jew-hatred. I grew up in New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s - in the schools I went to, the Jewish kids were the majority, and I loved their cultural difference from my own, which I also loved.
New York City was a fine place to grow up - when I did it. I would no more raise a child there now than I would expose it naked to a pack of starving coyotes.
I’m with you on this, Ellen. I spent my time from the 5th grade through most of the 8th grade on Staten Island and in Jersey. I was a transient, being a military brat, and I learned so much about Jewish culture and customs from those schools I attended. I even lived in Leonardo, New Jersey for about a year and a half, small town that became known for movies by Kevin Smith, who grew up in Red Bank. Clerks was filmed in Leonardo. Course I was long gone by then but I loved that place! Learned a lot about Italian culture there.
If one grew up in that area, in that time, one has, I believe, honorary status as part Jewish, part Italian, part Irish, part Puerto Rican, and part black, so long as one had sufficient exposure and interaction with these cultures.
It was a time in which black women complimented my mother on the manners she had raised my sister and me to have. "They remind me of little black girls." And my mother acknowledged that black mothers raised their children with beautiful manners.
Ou sont les nieges d'antan? (I hope I got the spelling of the last word correctly.)