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Friday, September K, 19M
Till SOUTBUM IR1AILITI
PLAIN TALK-By Allred Segal
I Get a Problem
The Christian lady who resides
in Norwood, which is one of the
suburbs of our town, sends me a
Jewish problem in quite a long
letter. She is hoping that I’d give
her the answer in the column
which I write for the daily after
noon paper.
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we Jews discuss only privately
within the walls of our houses,
or keep painfully deep down in
our hearts. So I wrote the lady:
“I don’t think the matter really
is one to talk about in the daily
press; but I do write a column
for the Jewish press in which I’d
like to present your protest."
So this is it:
“Dear Mr. Segal: You are a
Jew, I am a Gentile, and that is
the reason I’m writing you. I
have always taught my children
to like and respect your people
rather than taunt and criticize
them, for you are the descend
ants of Judah, and we are the
descendants of Joseph, who were
brothers, both the sons of Jacob
whom God called Israel. That
would make the Jew and the Gen
tile cousins, to say the least, as
well ai both being children of
God.
“One hears and reads much
about the unfairness of anti-
Semitism, but what about the
bitterness of the attitude of some
of the Jews toward Gentiles? I
have just had the painful experi
ence of having that feeling force
fully shown to me.
“My daughter recently met and
liked a Jewish boy. Apparently
that attraction was mutual, for
he asked her to go out with him,
and she happily consented. They
are youngsters of high school age
with nothing more serious on
their minds than enjoying each
other’s company.
“I have not the slightest objec
tion to their friendship. In fact
I truly believe it would be broad
ening to both of them; but the
bdy’s mother was furious upon
learning of their impending date
and made them break it simply
because my daughter is Gentile
Cah this be right by anyone’s
standards? The mother informed
nie that her son is not allowed to
date any but Jewish girls, and
that it would hurt her and the
boy’s father (he is a professional
man whom one would expect to
be lesk narrow-minded) if he
went out with Gentile girls.
“When all is said and done,
can it be denied that we all come
from the same source, and that
we are all looking to the same
God, and that we shall all enter
the next life in the same man
ner? Thus, how can it behoove
one of us to say of another that
he or she is inferior merely be
cause of the accident of birth?
“You may use this letter in
your column in part or entirety
as you see fit, but I hope that
you will not choose to ignore it.
I feel very strongly about this
matter which has both saddened
and disillusioned me deeply. Of
course, for obvious reasons keep
my name confidential. Yours
most sincerely . . .’’
Well, dear lady, I applaud what
you say about all of us being
brothers and sisters under the
Fatherhood of the One God
“that we are all looking to the
same God and that we shall all
enter the next life in the same
manner.”
And I wish there were many
more such Christians as you .
Christians who understand their
essential kinship to people who
go to other altars than their own.
But, oh dear lady, there are a
lot of Christians who set them
selves apart from people who are
Jews . . . and only because they
are Jews. I know of employers
who keep capable young Jews
out of jobs in their offices and
industries. And I know also that
most of the social clubs won’t
take Jews into their membership.
And I guess we Jews stick to
our own ghettos because, despite
our having been the earliest of
people to know God, we, as Jews,
are not desired in some of the
other neighborhoods. We feel too
righteously proud to try tQ, in
trude ourselves into such com
munities. It’s not hate but high
pride rather which keeps us
away from such association.
Yes. it all derives from the
centuries of religious persecution
which we had to take; there's
no such persecution now . . . but
the ancient prejudice continues,
like some ghost infesting the
hearts of Gentiles who should
know better out of the teaching means to be Christian. (And, know what it means to be Jew-
of Jesus who was a Jew also. by the way, I’m hoping for a ish . . . in accordance with the
I can well guess, dear lady, time when many more Jews will noble teaching.)*
that the parents of that Jewish
boy have no prejudice against
your lovely daughter herself;
their feeling has to do with the
inherited fear that’s in many
Jewish people . . . the fear of
some of those who call them
selves Christians but don’t be
have that way.
(I should tell you that when
my own three boys were in high
twhool 1 didn’t mind at all their
associating with nice Christian
girls.)
Well, I’ve spoken rather frank
ly, I guess, and, finally I raise
my hat to you, a noble Christian
lady, who knows what being a
Christian is all about. It would
become a better world if there
were many more like you . . .
people who know what it trqly
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