Joey's dialogue with Jack Wertheimer has been read with interest by Gary Rosenblatt, the editor-in-chief of The Jewish Week:
[Kurztman] writes that he and the majority of the staff of Jewcy, a hip and thoughtful Jewish Web site, are the products of intermarriage who “half-jokingly” refer to themselves as “part of the first generation of Jewish-American mongrels, or Frankenjews.” As a result, they reject the traditional Jewish opposition to intermarriage and seek “new forms of religious expression informed by non-Jewish traditions” because “those traditions are our patrimony.” Kurtzman asserts that “modern American life is the most corrosive acid ever to hit the ghetto walls” and that “the era of peoplehood has ended” — and good riddance. What is called for, he writes, is the reinvention of Judaism for modern life, a Judaism not threatened by universalism or diminishing Jewish numbers and willing to adopt other religions’ traditions.
Joey's the voice of a generation, y'all. Respek.
This post has some really wonderful insights and interpretations in it. How long do you spend writing your posts?