But Ms. Mohn is totally ignorant of Judaism. She writes: “The phenomenon of “Chosen-ness”, as understood in Jewish tradition, has nothing to do with closeness to God or superiority versus non-Jews”.
Ms Mohan is correct, though even most Jews get it wrong.
Chosen means chosen to do a particular job, that is to heal the world. It is a dirty job, and one that obviously has engendered much hatred. It does not mean chosen as special or better or anything of the sort – it is an obligation laid on the Jews, not a benefit given to them.
Chosen to battle the status quo – which means that those in power will hate and oppress you, because you are fighting against their entrenched power base.
As to her earlier quote about an “ethnic Jew” describing himself as Christian – there is a semantic mix of levels going on, one I have talked about here often
Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion – the same word has two distinct meanings, I wish we had another word, because this confusion causes much harm.
If the author were ethnically Italian, no one would have any problem with him calling himself any religion he chooses.
If you are ethnically Italian, you cannot change your ethnicity – so an Italian Jew could become an Italian Christian and visa versa, but an Italian Jew or Italian Christian could not become ,say, an ethnically German Jew or German Christian.
So it is not racist to say an ethnic Jew cannot stop being a Jew, regardless of what religion they profess. For example I am ethnically Jewish, but have no religious belief. Does my lack of belief in god change my ethnicity? Of course not.
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