Growing Up Jewdy
By Judy Andreas
03/10/07 "ICH" --- - Each day, I read stories about Jewish cults
and customs, corrupt Jewish leaders and the heinous activities
of the Zionist elite. Each day I read about the brutality in the
Middle East, the plight of the Palestinians, and the culpable
Jewish leaders in America. And each day, as I think back on my
personal history, my coming of age in an average American Jewish
family, I wonder, "where do I fit in?"
I am prompted to write this essay because stories like mine
rarely get told. It is the story of an ordinary Jewish family,
my family.
My childhood drama played on the stage of a secular Jewish
family. Dad, who had been raised as an Orthodox Jew, married
Mom, an atheist. She professed to be a Zionist, and yet, I
cannot help but wonder, if she were alive today, how she would
feel about the behavior of the State of Israel.
I was blessed with a sister who is five years my senior. Always
wanting to be like her, I followed obediently down the
rebellious road that she paved. She refused religious
instruction so "little sister" emulated her. My father went to
shul (synagogue) alone.
Certain holidays did make their way into the Zaldin household.
We had our annual Passover Celebration, we lit candles on
Chanukah, on Rosh Hashanah my father made his pilgrimage to the
shul and on Yom Kippur, my mother yelled at my sister and me as
we headed out the door to spend time doing "our own thing"
"What will the neighbors think?" My mother's main concern echoed
behind us.
I did not know much about the meaning behind the holidays
except, supposedly, that they had something to do with the Jews
fleeing persecution. In an attempt to enlighten me, Dad provided
a copy of "Hillel's Happy Holidays". If I indeed read it, I do
not remember it. And from what I have learned, since those
innocent days of yesteryear, they were not necessarily "happy".
Dad pursued a career in medicine.
"You are wasting your time and money" His father had no empathy
for his son's choice and wanted him to take his rightful place
in the family furniture business. But Dad was resolute, and so,
in the face of extreme opposition, he did various and sundry
jobs to put himself through medical school. You see, my Dad had
watched his mother die an excruciating death from esophageal
cancer when he was a boy of 16. His motivation was to help put
an end to suffering.
My father was a dreamer. But he was a lot more. An old fashioned
man, Dad was the stereotypical family doctor with the little
black bag who made "house calls". Yes, dear readers, there were
such things, back in the day. Many a night, the phone would
awaken him. Bag in hand, he set out to answer the cry of the
sick. Those were the days before Medicare and Medicaid and so,
if his patients could not pay, they did not pay.
"Before I die, there will probably be a cure for cancer" He said
innocently. He has been dead for 24 years.
I am certain that my father, with his Orthodox background, had
read the Talmud and yet, when my sister and I married outside
the faith, both husbands were welcomed into the family. We never
heard the "g" word. We were never exposed to any racist
doctrine. If I had not reincarnated as an Internet essayist, I
would never have known about the racist Babylonian Talmud. The
secular Jewish people I knew assimilated into the host culture
and many of them intermarried. Their children also intermarried.
Last night I listened to Joachim Martillo being interviewed on
Lewis News. He is a convert to Islam but has a rich background
in Jewish studies. In Israel, he got to experience the evils of
Zionism first hand.
In my family, lying to anyone, whether Jew or Gentile, was
considered a sin. And so, it was with great interest that I
heard Mr. Martillo discuss the Kol Nidre, the most sacred and
controversial prayer in the Jewish religion. "There are many
non-Jewish Web sites that are alarmed by the existence of this
prayer and what they feel is a license to lie and deceive year
after year." The "Explaining Kol Nidre" Web site --
www.angelfire.com/mt/talmud/kolnidre.html
Mr. Martillo explained the difference between a vow and a
contract, and further research provided me with the following:
"Refers Only to Individual Vows. The teachers of the synagogues,
however, have never failed to point out to their cobelievers
that the dispensation from vows in the "Kol Nidre" refers only
to those which an individual voluntarily assumes for himself
alone (see RoSH to Ned. 23b) and in which no other persons or
their interests are involved. In other words, the formula is
restricted to those vows which concern only the relation of man
to his conscience or to his Heavenly Judge "(see especially Tos.
to Ned. 23b). http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=340&letter=K
I believe that my father was an unusual role model for ethics.
We had a summer cottage upstate where no taxes were required,
but our main place of residence was in heavily taxed Brooklyn,
NY. When my father bought my mother an expensive coat, he could
easily have avoided paying taxes by using the upstate address.
And yet, he refused. He did not think it was ethical And
furthermore, he felt privileged to be able to pay taxes in
America. You see, Dad's family had been in Russia during the
Pogroms. His older brother was nearly killed. And so, when they
came to America, they literally kissed the ground.
And now it is 2007 and the world is precariously teetering in
the balance. Israel is not the dream that my mother had
envisioned. The America of today is not the dream of my father.
They have morphed into a nightmare where greedy unconscionable
elitists make the rules and the ordinary person, Jew or Gentile
is merely fodder for the self serving goals of the ruling cabal.
I have long since left the Jewish religion, if indeed, I was
ever there. I was baptized in 1991 and opened myself to an
entirely new reality. And yet, the values of my family of origin
will always be a part of me.
The Internet screams about Jewish crimes and Jewish criminals.
My mission as an Internet essayist has been twofold. One has
been to open Jewish eyes to the reality of their leaders;
leaders who have duped them in the past and are duping them
again. I yearn for Jewish people to question what is truly
taking place in the Middle East. I yearn for Jewish people to
question their history and their reported "victimhood". I yearn
for Jewish people to become "individuals" and not fall prey to a
"consensus trance" imposed upon them by "fear programming". I
yearn for Jewish people not to accept the official narrative of
events past and not to jail differing opinions. I yearn for
Jewish people to rise up against their leaders. And, most
passionately, I yearn for ALL Jewish people to recognize that
nobody is any better or any worse than anyone else.
In addition, I yearn for non Jewish people to realize that not
ALL Jewish people are corrupt and/or evil. Certainly there are
families that lie and cheat, but it is important to acknowledge
that my story is not unique; many people have grown up in
families such as mine. Do not let those who have been corrupted
obscure the reality that there are many people of Jewish origin
who have love and respect for all of humanity.
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