SKATE BREAK
My latest article for InterFaithFamily.com is up now.
Back Talk
By Alina Adams
I am single-handedly destroying the Jewish community. Or so I've been told.
Well, maybe not single-handedly. I am, after all, just one person within the vast ocean of intermarried American Jews (47 percent of us, according to the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-2001). But I am, quite often, the only intermarried person at a given Shabbat/Rosh Hashanah/Shavuot table, and so, de facto, I tend to attract the cumulative blame for having married a non-Jewish man--thus destroying the Jewish community. Haman couldn't do it. Hitler couldn't do it. Stalin couldn't do it. But apparently my 5-foot-7-inch husband can.
Read the entire piece, here.
Back Talk
By Alina Adams
I am single-handedly destroying the Jewish community. Or so I've been told.
Well, maybe not single-handedly. I am, after all, just one person within the vast ocean of intermarried American Jews (47 percent of us, according to the National Jewish Population Survey 2000-2001). But I am, quite often, the only intermarried person at a given Shabbat/Rosh Hashanah/Shavuot table, and so, de facto, I tend to attract the cumulative blame for having married a non-Jewish man--thus destroying the Jewish community. Haman couldn't do it. Hitler couldn't do it. Stalin couldn't do it. But apparently my 5-foot-7-inch husband can.
Read the entire piece, here.
posted by Alina Adams at 8:30 AM
1 Comments:
At May 16, 2008 9:19 PM,
Anonymous said…
Don't pay any attention to stupid people. You are blessed with wonderful children and a husband who loves and understand you. What else does the woman need?
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