re: I don’t personally know any Jews

LINK back in early 1900's there were a lot of russian jews coming into the country. so many, they thought it would cause anti-semitism. so jacob sciff organized a plan to send them into the country through galveston. more than 10,000 came through galveston. when i was a kid in east texas, my family would drive over to tyler to a department store to shop. named meyer and schmidts. i wonder if they had come in through galveston and been set up in business in tyler.

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This is a very good point. Lots of non-practicing or now converted to Christianity ethnic Jews in the south.

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After my parents' divorce, dad (a devoutly religious Christian his entire life) eventually married a practicing Jew. This is in OKC, late 70's. They had a Jewish wedding. Stepmom has a large Jewish family. I've been to several bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs. I can recite the Shabbat Dinner prayers from memory. Sudden immersion into the Jewish culture when I was young. Dad and stepmom eventually attended a Messianic Jewish congregation which let to starting their own Messianic Jewish congregation which now has around 500 in their congregation. He basically converted my stepmom to Christianity in the process. I guess it was a compromise but both sides of the family had problems with it, hers much more so. They follow all the Jewish calendar holidays, but also believe that Christ is the true Messiah. Me being an unreligious person, noped out of all of it around 16 or 17 years of age.

I worked at Touro Infirmary for 36 years, I know many…

Including some of the best and nicest doctors I worked with…

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i mean this with all due respect, it just means that you're in the income spectrum that's not likely to mingle with jews. which is to say poor white trash. remember i said with all due respect.

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Well, Dick, is that your name or just what everyone calls you? If you are a representative of those who mingle with these Jews you are referring to, then I should consider myself fortunate. My guess is that you are merely tolerated by them. No offense, Dick.

All bout dem jooooooooooooooooooos!

I don’t have anything against Jews, I was just wondering if it was unusual that I didn’t personally know any. The recent revival of anti semitism is alarming.

lol. Imagine that…

thanks for proving my point jethro and remember i said with all due respect.i bet you don't know many catholics either.

i was two when my dad got transferred to hope arkansas, it's just a backwater schit stain in south arkansas from little rock. a woman in the auxiliary junior league (that's a lady's group) proudly told my mother that hope didn't have any jews, my mother immediately responded, "yes i noticed that as you don't any decent department stores!"

in the south the pecking order of society is this,

white protestant (episcopal or presbyterians)
white protestants (all other)
white catholic
white jewish
blacks
and then white trash

the reason white trash is at the bottom is because you were born with the huge advantage of being born white and did nothing with it.

have a nice day!

Arkansas is a glorified welfare state of Walmart.

You people don’t speak for the South.

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I don’t personally know any Jews

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Poor