I was raised in an Orthodox
Jewish tradition, became a bar mitzvah under Rabbi Norman
Lamb in 1957 at the Kodemah Synagogue. My grandfathers,
Israel and Baruch, were devout and decent men. I was
a college professor of communications and writing for
33 years.
I am old enough to remember
the reality of anti-Semitism in America. I know anti-Semitism
when I see it. I do not see anti-Semitism in our life
in the Twelve Tribes.
I was born a Jew. I am still
a Jew — a Jew in the New Covenant as written about
in Jeremiah 31:31. I am accepted and loved, as are my
children, by all who live in our communities. Members
of our community come from all kinds of religious, ethnic,
national, economic, and racial backgrounds.
by Stuart Lavin (Sholom Israel)
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