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{weblog_name} - Bigotry Or Survival?
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A few weeks ago, a guy – who identified himself as being Jewish—called to tell me about what he considered a prime case of religious and ethnic discrimination. It seems that a local Catholic high school was holding a prom for its seniors, and one of the students wanted to bring her platonic Jewish male friend. The school, however, forbade it, because the friend was not Catholic. “Tell me, is that blatant discrimination or what?” the caller asked. Yes, I responded. Then, the caller admitted that the whole scenario was a fabrication, a great big lie. Never happened. He said the “real” story was of a friend’s son who attends a local Jewish high school and wanted to take a platonic non-Jewish female friend to the prom. The school basically said, “Um, sorry, ain’t gonna happen. It’s against our… read more

I would suggest that if someone is willing to give up on his heritage based on a slight by a particular institution of the “tribe,” then his affiliation and sense of Jewish identity is so incredibly shallow that it isn’t the slight that is the reason he is leaving the fold. 

[ He went on to say that the whole matter has turned him off to the Jewish community and Judaism in general, and he was even thinking of quitting his temple..]

He’s looking for a reason to justify his already having disengaged from Judaism etc. 

It should be the Jewish family that keeps their child from attending the catholic prom.  It is a matter of survival…  we need more than prohibitions to survive but it does make a statement…