ticket Oppenheimer,Tablet Magazine
fair now, it can seem nearly comically difficult to be Jewish. We've seen worse times, or obviously,but the last year has brought us murders in Pittsburgh and in Poway, Cal., and a substantial spike in anti-Semitic graffiti and detest crimes,and a painful internal debate about new members of Congress who seem, to many of us, or anti-Semitic. Meanwhile,Jewish literacy is paltry, and birth and marriage rates are, or apart from in the Orthodox community,low. In such a time as this, Judaism can feel like a fraternity nobody would ever want to join. Some of us were born into it, or we're glad. But why would...
Source: realclearreligion.org