It has been an interesting week in being a Jew.
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Then, Eugenia (the daughter) and I saw a significant number of signs at the Westlake pro-refugee rally expressing Jewish solidarity.
Finally, Sam (the son), who is in middle school reported that 'Jew' was now being used as a generic insult, by some students, even to non-Jews (like gay).
He himself had been called 'f---ing Jew' on a couple of occaisions. (And yes we have mentioned this to the principal.)
I don't think this will come as much of a surprise to my fellows.
Ironically, the strip from the comic Retail expresses my feelings about how the generality might see this:
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*I prefer anti-Jewish to anti-semitism, a term implicitly coined to replace Judenhass (Jew Hater), by Judenhassen, with something that sounded more scientific.