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Jewish in America, Lately

JL;DR SUMMARY In "Jewish in America, Lately," David Bogart reflects on his personal Jewish identity amidst rising antisemitism and global unrest, especially highlighted by the October 7th attacks in Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryJewish IdentityReform JudaismInterfaith FamiliesFamily HeritageOctober 7th AttacksHolocaust MemoriesCommunity ActionGlobal Unrest

Places mentioned

United States
"The area where I grew up has more Jews than average, at about 10 percent of the city population compared to the U.S. domestic total which sits at about 2.5 percent."
Texas, United States
"I was at a music festival with my wife in Texas."
Poland
"My teacher discussing how, as a boy, he was smuggled out of Poland on a cargo ship in a crate and he never saw his immediate family again."
Israel
"I recall an Israeli teacher of mine shouting at all of us, Sheket bevakasha!"
Ramallah, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Palestinian Territories
"For context, 20 percent of Israels population is Arab/Muslim but if two Jews go through Ramallah, they end up getting lynched."
Ukraine
"They then went on to live in Ukraine, until antisemitism there became too extreme; at which time they emigrated to Israel."
Belarus
"I know that my fathers family fled the Belarus area roughly five years prior to the Russian Revolution which took place in 1917."
Canada
"our family fled to North America where they entered through Canada and made their way to northeastern Ohio, finally settling."

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