(This is my second newsletter of the week. I didn’t plan it that way. I wrote this one before I realized I needed to write another in response to the upcoming Republican vote to overturn the election. Serves me right for writing too early. New Year’s Resolution: More procrastination! Anyway, here it is.)
Thanks for writing this Peter. I am a big admirer of your thinking. For the longest time, I was concerned that my daughters would have to prove their "red white and blue" -ness as Muslims in this country. It is very satisfying to see being Muslim as being rather boringly normalized in the USA these days. Yes, I do live in NY but still, it is nice to see that dual vision is being accepted and also normalized now. You just said is better than I could. Thank you!
wonderful column. I have found South African Jews fascinating: a old friend. Lionel Sacks, who passed away years ago had been sent to a Catholic school when he was eight, then spent his life traveling the world with only the money his father sent him; also the wife of a nephew and her family -accomplished....then there is the issue of race....
This is, as expected, a great piece (you share with me a pronounced propensity for parenthetical thinking that some may find maddening, but I find clarifying).
When you completed this, had you read the TOI “featured blog post” by Avi Weiss in which he professed to be “in pain” for “having to” encourage voters to choose Loeffler (oMg!) over Warnock? His message is not an example of dual loyalty or protection of US Jews, it is nakedly ‘don’t support Warnock, he would be bad For Israel!’ This, when the ability of a Democratic President to govern the US hangs In the balance (quoting Hillel, no less!). That is a call for voters, Jewish and not Jewish, to put the perceived interests of Israel before domestic needs. That is a serious problem.
Thanks for writing this Peter. I am a big admirer of your thinking. For the longest time, I was concerned that my daughters would have to prove their "red white and blue" -ness as Muslims in this country. It is very satisfying to see being Muslim as being rather boringly normalized in the USA these days. Yes, I do live in NY but still, it is nice to see that dual vision is being accepted and also normalized now. You just said is better than I could. Thank you!
wonderful column. I have found South African Jews fascinating: a old friend. Lionel Sacks, who passed away years ago had been sent to a Catholic school when he was eight, then spent his life traveling the world with only the money his father sent him; also the wife of a nephew and her family -accomplished....then there is the issue of race....
This is, as expected, a great piece (you share with me a pronounced propensity for parenthetical thinking that some may find maddening, but I find clarifying).
When you completed this, had you read the TOI “featured blog post” by Avi Weiss in which he professed to be “in pain” for “having to” encourage voters to choose Loeffler (oMg!) over Warnock? His message is not an example of dual loyalty or protection of US Jews, it is nakedly ‘don’t support Warnock, he would be bad For Israel!’ This, when the ability of a Democratic President to govern the US hangs In the balance (quoting Hillel, no less!). That is a call for voters, Jewish and not Jewish, to put the perceived interests of Israel before domestic needs. That is a serious problem.