A guide to dating Jews earns author 'Nazi' tag

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A guide to dating Jews earns author 'Nazi' tag

Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Sunday August 28, 2005
The Observer


Kristina Grish has been described as a 'Nazi' and little better than a prostitute. Her crime: writing a light-hearted, non-Jewish women's guide to understanding Jewish men.

On websites and letters pages in Israel and the United States, Jewish women have railed at Grish, an American Protestant, accusing her of making it harder for them to find a Jewish man and trying to destroy Judaism.

On the surface, Boy Vey! The Shiksa's Guide to Dating Jewish Men, has little in common with Mein Kampf, but Grish has touched the insecurity of some Jews who feel that marrying outside their religion will lead to its gradual erosion.

The title is a play on the Yiddish exclamation 'Oy vey' and shiksa is a Yiddish word for a non-Jewish woman.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1557931,00.html

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1. Also here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x151055

[dogday]

2. This is absurd

Last I looked it was a free country and we can still talk about subjects. So what big deal, a guide to dating jewish men. Is this because they don't want any inter-mixing of faith and nationality?

[Burma Jones]

3. As a WASP married to a Jewish woman, I sympathise

I have actually been told that I am worse than Hitler because I am destroying the Jewish people by inter-marrying.

I have been asked whether "your people" are disturbed by my marrying a Jew. And I responded, only the Ku Klux Klan seems to mind. This is a controversial answer, but I believe valid.

We're all potential victims of wacko, right-wing fundies, be they Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim. I am fed up and sick of people putting some sort of narrow tribal mentality ahead of their membership in the HUMAN race.

A funny aside or two, when my wife's Great Aunt asked whether my family minded that I was marrying a Jew, I told her that my brother married a Catholic - and that's worse. When people ask in what religion we're raising the kids, I respond - the only one true religion, American Materialism. The Rabbi that married us asked whether I was comfortable raising the kids Jewish, I responded - It was good enough for Jesus, who am I to argue.