I have a questions for natural Jewish people? (need serious answers)?

Question

How did you guys overcome the prejudices against you? Like in Nazi Germany during World War I...aren't you guys bitter about how many of you were brutally beaten & starved to death? Doesn't it bother you guys at all when people say lies about your people? The reason I am asking this is because some of us blacks are having trouble letting go of the past (slavery) and there are some who do actually work hard & still people (especially whites) are always putting us down. I mean how do you let go of the past and not let other people make you feel like you're nothing?

Jessica, what in the world!?

look here "miss" dramaqueen who do you think you are coming on here talking to me like that. Don't you ever call me that again! This was a serious question and I don't need your 2 cents in it ok? If you're not a Jew, then shut up!!!

G.A. thank you for your encourging & insightful answer...I really appreciate it. I hope your days will go well with you.

Answer 1

First of all, Nazi Germany wasn't involved in World War I. That was World War II. Hitler came to power largely because of the crippling economic crisis in Germany which came about as the result of the signing of the Treaty of Versaille to end World War I.

Anyway, you ask a much deeper question than one for me to quibble over such details, so I think it fair for me to answer that too.

I am a Jew. When I was growing up, I learned all about the horrors inflicted upon Jews, not just from Nazi Germany but throughout the anals of history. The Jewish people have a long history, going all the way back to biblical times, of being under social and economic hardship. Wherever Jews have thrived, somebody has come along and tried to knock us all down like dominos.

Part of the Jewish teaching is that, eventually, the Messiah will come. When that happens, there will be peace on Earth forever after. We do not believe that Jesus was the Messiah, only that he was a very important figure in history. As a result, we continue to hope and pray for the coming of the Messiah and we do whatever good we possibly can to help bring that about as quickly as possible. Even when times are very tough, such as Nazi Germany, the Spanish Inquisition, or the Crusades, so long as we are capable of surviving, we know that we will have the chance once again to rebuild ourselves and our heritage, and to continue to pray for the coming of the Messiah.

There is an old expression that goes "When life throws you a lemon, make lemonade." Jews have taken this to heart and done so, despite the fact that, even today, there are people who want nothing more than for a black hole to swallow each and every one of us Jews up if they can't kill us with either gunfire, rockets, or suicide bombers. Jews are not going away because there is always hope among Jews that one day, no matter how distant it may seem, things will get better, and we know now after Nazi Germany that things can always get worse.

Many Jews that grew up in, and lived through, the times of the Holocaust would not even talk about such horrors for years. (Elie Weisel is a prominant example here.) Both as a Jewish community and a world community, I am glad they finally broke their silence over the last several decades and continued that process of self-analysis and describing what happened not only to them but to countless others who did not survive such atrocities. That too, the retelling of events, is as old as the Torah.

In fact, Jews talk very openly about our religious and cultural history, both among ourselves as well as among others wishing to learn about it from us. We have a very strong sense of a Jewish community. While it is true that there are different sects of Judaism much as there are different sects of Catholicism, there is still a very strong bond that holds most Jews together. (It may be difficult to believe, but even Judaism has its own version of extremism, something many Jews are not wont to talk about for fear of the social backlash which is quite engrained in us from a historical perspective since many outsiders like to believe that "one bad Jew" is a reflection of "all bad Jews".)

So, to answer your question more directly, Jews DON'T let go of the past. We simply integrate it into our culture, and we continue to teach about it doing whatever we possibly can to prevent similar mistakes from occurring in the future, because, as a Jewish scholar once wrote, (I think it was Hillel, but I might be wrong about that) "if we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it."

Answer 2

Jews will continue to practice Brit milah, but they'll have to move the procedure to the age of 18 and only consenting men will go through it. It does NOT ban circumcision for adults- the wording is- "another person who has not attained the age of 18 years or on any non-consenting adult" that is, you cannot circumcise a minor at all unless medically indicated. Any adult who legally consents can have it done for any reason. For the record, circumcision is NOT a constitutionally guaranteed right. You are free to practice your OWN religion, but circumcision infringes on the rights of others. Religious rights do not extend to the bodies of other people. You can't tattoo your children in the name of religion, you can't beat them even if you feel your religion requires it, and those who come from religious traditions that practice the circumcision of little girls are already banned from the practice, even if they feel strongly it is religiously required.