Reply #4: I'm glad you think so

[rockymountaindem]

I'm also happy to find out I'm not the only one who has this issue. I mean, when the other students say things like, "what Jewish camp did you go to", and I say "I didn't", they say why not. Then I tell 'em the story I just told you. They don't seem to get it, I guess. Also, they seem to have a lot of conversations about their childhood I just can't relate to. Many of them go back to be councilors at the camps they used to attend, and they talk about that a lot. I feel kinda left out.

I was reading a Jewish newspaper the other day. They had an advice column and one of the letters was basically "my husband was offered a great job in the Quad Cities (or someplace like that), but I don't want to leave Boston". The advice lady replied by saying, "why would you want to move anywhere where'd you be the only Jew?", as if that's a death sentence or something. How am I supposed to take that? Alas, it's not an uncommon attitude, IMHO. It's like I'm from "the colonies" or something.