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[quote=Anonymous]I think a lot these days about the "are we guests here?" question, which it merits saying is something we didn't used to actually say out loud or bother to defensively insist we're not. The times have definitely brought this out. That's telling in itself.

I also (in our Progressive city, in my Progressive workplace, etc. ) feel this enormous pressure to demonstrate I'm one of the "good" Jews. Not too attached to Jewish tradition, not too aware of Jewish history, not too relieved Israel exists in the event we turn out to be guests here after all.

And this is simply not an area with much of an observant Jewish community. I have to remind myself every time DCUM Jews, who seem to skew very Reform or basically Reform, shock me by proclaiming themselves to be both "good" Jews (as in inoffensive cosmopolitan universalists who have no interest in Jewish particularity) and also that they can be this way and insist that they're still somehow good Jews (as Jews) because they're totally free to decide for themselves, from within their own pupiks (look it up if you need to, case in point) what that means.

Anyway, I recommend this essay, which I thought was a very clear-sighted discussion of Jew-hating moments in the world like the one that has emerged again. The thing is we're inherently uncool, and we'll be punished as long as we refuse to make ourselves cool: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-cool-kids
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