An old teenage childhood friend of mine on FaceBook wrote and posted this:

This is a year old but if its arguments weren’t persuasive then, they are unavoidable now. This is essentially a talk I have been giving for years.

Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism.

This summer, I had a conversation with a young woman about her Jewish identity. She told me how she grew up in a family that was very involved in her synagogue. She went to Jewish day school. She had been to Israel multiple times. But she felt very far from her Jewishness.

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