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I had been planning to say a few words about growing up as a Jew
somewhere along the line but did not feel any particular urgency.
However, the attack on the holocaust museum, the entrapment of a group
of African-Americans into a plot to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx, as
well as the steady drumbeat against Iran for being “anti-Semitic”
prompted me to put the topic on the front burner. As will be obvious,
what I have to say is much more autobiographical than my usual post, but
in a roundabout way it will deal with more general questions about the
Jewish race and religion since my experience was fairly typical, both in
terms of becoming a Jew and eventually renouncing my ties to the religion.
