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[rm]

My only quasi-coherent review of The Good Shepherd:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976860711



Now, who can I lure to Thursday's Barn Dance?
http://www.nycbarndance.com/

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[rm.livejournal.com]

That's amazing. I've also been told "I didn't know Jews looked like other white people" I wonder what they would have said to an Ethiopian Jew.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I don't get anti-semitism at all. How could anyone manage to get through life without meeting one Jewish person? Maybe I am biased, because I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and worked at a JCC, but seriously. Not one?

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's actually really common. I've had plenty of people very politely tell me about how they'd never met Jews or knew anythign about Judaism until they moved in NYC. In Australia, it was also very interesting to people -- as Sydney has a very old synogogue and most people know Jews, but there isn't really secular/cultural Judaism there as there is here -- Jews are religious (usually Conservative or Orthodox) and spiritual. Even the Jews there were confused by my experience of Jewishness. All of this I discovered because one of the acting courses did Angels in America and I was shocked to see a girl doing the Hebrew parts so well, so I asked her about it.

[rufus.livejournal.com]

it, ah, isn't *that* hard, actually. I grew up in the reasonably cosmopolitan VA suburbs of DC and I knew approximately four Jewish people. I never met any Puerto Ricans until I moved to NYC, either.

Since then I've lived in an Orthodox neighborhood in Pittsburgh and I now work for a beneficiary agency of a northern NJ Federation, so obviously my horizons have been expanded in that department. :)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It does seem to be fairly common, but I can't wrap my mind around it. It feels like meeting someone from the wrong century or something- I always want to say, "Really? Really? Maybe you met one and just didn't know they were Jewish!"

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think that is surely true, but then I also think that Jewishness is perhaps still a secret that's kept some places, even in this country.