American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it means to be Jewish.
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.