(JEWISH GROUP) 18 Ways To Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month (this month)
May is Jewish American Heritage Month! This annual month-long celebration is an opportunity to honor the accomplishments and contributions of Jewish Americans since their arrival in the 17th century.
This heritage month also is a time to examine the life of Jews in America — the difficulties, antisemitism, and discrimination they have faced over the years.
As a Jewish American who grew up in the Midwest and became a rabbi, I have experienced all the beauties Judaism can offer in America: the joys of the ability to worship, speak, and live without the threat of government persecution, as well as the hardships every Jew experiences at one time or another in their lives.
In my life as a teacher, I have had students ask me, “Where are your horns,” “Why did you kill Jesus,” and other questions that seem almost laughably absurd — but were asked with intense sincerity. Jewish friends in the business world or the U.S. armed forces tell me how they were passed over for promotions due to their Jewishness.
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