At the meeting of the Board of rabbis in a large city in America the guest speaker was the famous Ashley Montague. For years the board had invited prominent Jewish scholars to speak at the annual gathering. This time it was decided to aim for a great public name, a general celebrity, not a Jewish one. After the speech, one of the rebbitzens cried to Dr. Montague, “What can we do to keep our children from assimilating, from intermarriage, from leaving our faith?” The answer from the benign professor and author was, “Madam, why are you crying? You should rejoice! Our prayers have been answered. This is what we came to America for: to integrate, to assimilate, to join humanity, to wipe away archaic distinctions based on tribalism and superstition!”
Be careful with what you embrace.
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