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Assimilation

J.F. Brown, chief research psychologist at the Menninger Clinic, wrote in 1942 in "The Origin of the Anti-Semitic Attitude" that "the costumes of the rabbis; the celebration of the chief feasts, especially the Sabbath, on other dates than those of the Christian culture; prohibitions regarding diet; the facades of synagogues - all mark the Jew out."

We always have a choice to blend in or stand out as unique.  What do we teach our children?

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