(Jewish Group) 'Jew' isn't a slur. You don't have to avoid saying it
As Jews around the world prepared for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, two weeks ago, President Trump wished his Jewish brothers and sisters a happy holiday.
In 2019, he extended a version of the same greeting to those observing Rosh Hashanah. In 2018, it was Jewish people. In 2017, it was Jewish families.
With one exception, a word was missing from the texts of all four annual greetings: Jews.
The syntax speaks to a strange phenomenon: People often seem to be afraid of using the word Jew, a word that, simply, describes the people theyre talking about.
Discomfort with the word Jew exists across the political spectrum. In 2015, a Democratic official chastised Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for a campaign sign he advertised reading Jew for Rand. Articles about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on CNN, USA Today and elsewhere last week described her as the first Jewish person to lie in state. (Notably, Jewish newspapers felt fine calling Ginsburg the first Jew to be given the honor.)
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