{"id":40683,"date":"2015-03-30T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40683"},"modified":"2015-03-30T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T19:45:30","slug":"how-can-i-be-jewish-when-i-am-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40683","title":{"rendered":"How can I be Jewish when I am black?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Blogs\/The-Black-and-Jewish-Question\/How-Can-I-Be-Jewish-When-I-am-Black-390443\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>How can I be Jewish when I am black?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-02-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Blogger\/Ella-Bennett\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ella Bennett<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a hypothetical question that I&#8217;m always, almost asked by my many Jewish friends, associates and acquaintances. In my haste I\u2019d assumed the answer to be obvious until I discovered the subtlety behind which the real dynamics of the question are hidden.\u00a0 What follows is my hypothetical &#8216;answer&#8217; to the question. There are many parts to be considered before this question can be answered fully.<\/p>\n<p>There are enough parts to fill a book in fact, such is the volume and complexity of the rules that are visited on he or she born inter-racial black and Jewish who then approaches the gates of the shul in search of a refuge from a sometimes racially hostile and anti-Semitic world.\u00a0 I am a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mischling\" target=\"_blank\">mischlinge<\/a>, and would have been murdered alongside the 6 million had I been alive in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">WW2<\/a>, a war in which my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaican<\/a> grandfather fought through his service in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Air_Force\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Air Force<\/a> as a 15 year old boy where he helped defend the world from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Hitler\" target=\"_blank\">Hitler<\/a>, and helped save the Jews, while stationed in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin<\/a>.\u00a0 A man with such courage, candor and grace, is it any wonder that my grandmother, a Jewess, should fall in love with him on his settling in 1950\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Blogs\/The-Black-and-Jewish-Question\/How-Can-I-Be-Jewish-When-I-am-Black-390443\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I be Jewish when I am black? The Jerusalem Post 2015-02-09 Ella Bennett This is a hypothetical question that I&#8217;m always, almost asked by my many Jewish friends, associates and acquaintances. In my haste I\u2019d assumed the answer to be obvious until I discovered the subtlety behind which the real dynamics of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,3601,8,820],"tags":[19772,19774,19773],"class_list":["post-40683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","tag-ella-bennett","tag-jerusalem-post","tag-the-jerusalem-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}