If renewed exclusion teaches us only to become more protective of Jewish work, we will have learned the wrong lesson from the original Borscht Belt.

Forgiving someone on behalf of a community that is not yours is not forgiveness. It is opportunism dressed up as virtue.

The belief that we will be loved because of our weakness or protected because of our victimhood is not only ineffective; it is inaccurate. Moreover, it is not Jewish.