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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't think OP is dealing with the reality that the Jewish community is not going to be welcoming in any real sense to her biracial children. The fct that she herself is jewish helps, but try sending them to Hebrew School at Washington Hebrew or some other such temple--she will see that they will treat her as an outsider. I wish this were not the case--it was my experience--although I am not jewish but my husband is. Religious school became the deal breaker for us.[/quote]

Your children may have been treated as outsiders not because they were black but because you were not Jewish and as a result, your children probably didn't feel comfortable in the setting. I've seen this a lot actually -- children with no real jewish identity or not living in  culturally jewish home suddenly are thrown into hebrew school and don't know how to cope so they withdraw themselves from the environment. If I were thrown into Chinese school at a young age without any real connection to the language, culture or people apart from say maybe dad being Chinese (but not involved at all with the culture) I would have had the same reaction.

I've taught at several Hebrew schools around dc and have been a teacher at full time privates in other cities. Yes, I have also had black students. They were not treated any differently and were just as popular as any of the other kids. The full-time privates have their own issues - although I haven't heard about any racist incidents - just like all of the other privates in DC.[/quote]

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