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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It strikes me as creepy, and either a sign of some other problem you have, or a cover for an agenda of some sort."

I guess I should defend this accusation as well. I've been writing on this forum for all of two days and asked one question and then a follow up question. I have no cover for an agenda or sign of some other problem. Possibly David Salzberg in writing his blog for everyone to see has a sign of some other problem or an agenda. Asking questions in an AMA forum is hardly creepy and if it's so creepy, you shouldn't even be here.[/quote]

My only comment was the you started with a broad brush that all jews are insular (my words, not yours).  I respond by strongly disagreeing with your premise.  For the most part, Jews are not self-isolating.  Jewish people do tend to live around other jewish people, just like Italians tend to live near other people of similar descent (ever hear of little Italy).

Now, the reason why jews tend to congregate together is not because we discriminate, but rather 1) we were not allowed to live anywhere until relatively recently, 2) there needs to be a  critical mass of jewish people to get things like Matzo for Passover.  Furthermore, observant jews (which is the proper word) require at least ten people to pray -- a minion.

But, I do not know anyone (outside of the orthodox community) that limits interactions or friends to jews.  There is really no difference in how jews interact with other jews vs. non-jews than, say, Koreans, Indians, AA, Italians, Irish, etc.  That was my point.

You came in and tried to isolate jews by making accusations.  That is where the antisemitism accusation came in.  And multiple posters pointed that out.  I am just one of many.  You might be surprised to find out how many people you associate with that are jewish.

My only comment was.... you've made many comments almost all of which have been accusations and derogatory names.  What was that one about how you were going to come after me with your horns? There were even threats. How can you say "my only comment was" when you were even given threats across an internet board? From the beginning you judged me as an anti-Semitic unnecessarily. I don't think in your eyes you ever viewed me as anything other than an anti-semite even from the beginning. I certainly did not start out with a broad brush that all jews are insular. They are not nor did I say they were. As someone said, jews are everywhere. I've repeated many times that I still have many jewish friends, some of which I consider very close friends who I even travel to visit. I said I've met several groups jews who've acted insular in the past and don't believe in god nor do they do much in the way of observing their culture so I wondered what the power was behind their connection and if they still thought they were chosen. I was responding to the OP who said she wasn't religious but still thought she was chosen. You even agreed this was an irrational statement by the OP. If you want to take "many" as "all" you can, but you'd be wrong as I've already written to you over and over. Despite your refute that this rarely happens among jews I will not stand down from my observation. About 50-75% of the jews I've met are pretty insular and still atheist or at least agnositic, but then I've mostly lived around NYC where they can limit their interactions easily and subtly. In NOVA in particular, the jews are not like that at all and people in general are very open to making friends from all over, but that's not where I've spent a lot of my life. As you noted, Florida is a much different place than VA or California. In reading the website of one of the jewish sororities I mentioned, their history reads "Most of the seven had experienced the [b]subtle, but very real[/b], discrimination practiced against religious minorities by many Greek organizations at the time." It says subtle. No one was hitting them or hurling insults for them to start a new sorority. Yet the sisters of the day when I pledged were doing the very thing that these women experienced themselves. You couldn't even acknowledge though that they were practicing discrimination, whereas according to you anyone is anti-sematic just for asking questions. I don't believe it's a good thing to be insular with just your own kind. You can be proud of you heritage, do many things with a particular group or religion without insulating yourself and judging others as less than or not worthy of your time. I don't care if you're jewish, black, white, Asian, republican, liberal, Christian, etc. We're all part of mankind. You seem to think it's ok for an Asian to be like that or at least aren't willing to judge them as being insular, but I think a young Korean in this country is also insular if they conscientiously decide to have only Korean friends. They may have the right to do this, but this action will cause the Korean to be more fearful of others and in turn others will be more fearful of him/her.

I also did not try to isolate jews in any way on this internet forum. How is that even possible to do on an anonymous opinion board? The only person who identified themselves and seems to have a greater agenda is you. "You came in"... sorry I didn't know I had to be invited. You isolated jews all by yourself with your derogatory remarks appearing as an irrational and unintelligent jew. As a worker of SAIC, I thought you'd be able to have a more civil and rational discourse. Lucky for you there are some more intelligent and rational jews on this board willing to be more civil and provide thoughtful responses. Please get out of the business of helping non-jews understand jews better. You do jews of the world no help and just stir up trouble where there wasn't any.
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