Despite the fact that we’ve made some incredible achievements that seem unlikely from a small group of people who, until the past seventy-five years, have not had the consistent freedom to own a home, live where they want, hold any job they want, have equal citizenship, get elected to office, or live day to day without the fear of being murdered. We are still plagued by the biologically ingrained fear of being rounded up for that success. Because every single Jewish person is a descendant of someone who was sitting in a kitchen somewhere in the world, looked around at the family, and said, “We
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