We Are “Just” Jews
By Steve Freedman
Last week I wrote about the reality that Judaism was never just a religion. Here, I want to consider what happens when we start labeling what kind of Jews we are, or labeling others. I was listening to a podcast recently when someone said, “I’m just a Reform Jew,” almost apologetically, as if she needed to qualify her own belonging before someone else did it for her. I kept coming back to that word, “just” and what it says about us that so many Jews feel the need to diminish their own Judaism before anyone even asks them to explain it.
You can read the full article here: We Are “Just” Jews.
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