But in the spirit of resilience, I’d like to suggest that we dare add something more hopeful to our Seders this year, something more American, something about transforming nightmares into dreams
The success of Israel since its birth in 1948 is that it inherited the keen sense of danger from the Old Jew and married it to the military prowess of the New Jew.
“Curb” gave us advice on what to talk about to get serious laughs, with the caveat that it’s preferable to only tease people who won’t call security on you.
Given our long history of contributing to the welfare of this country, who better than the Jews to step up during America’s time of need?
I felt like a visitor from Mars: “Are you people on Earth out of your freaking minds? These Jews here are the LAST people you want to hate, and the FIRST you want to admire and even emulate.”
The fact is, America today is broken, and the more it is broken, the worse it is for the Jews.
While Schumer in America is worried about obstacles to peace, Israelis are more worried about obstacles to victory against a cunning foe sworn to its destruction.
One can argue that the most significant Jewish development of the past 100 years is the transformation of Jews from a physically vulnerable people that went to its slaughter to a powerful people able to defend itself.
Given that he was reading prepared remarks, one would think that he would choose his words, or at least his vocabulary, more carefully.
Jew haters would love nothing better than to move Jewish and Zionist voices “underground,” perhaps because they know the power of our collective voice.
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