This guy deserves more attention. Hes smart

I'm a gentile but I identify with Jewish culture and history to the chagrin of many of my WASP relations. Nevertheless it's emphasis on tikkun olam and chesed and their openness to the wider world make this identity hard to resist. It's contribution to humanity is incalculable. I am so thankful for the Jewish people regardless of their problems and controversies. I owe them I feel a debt of enormous gratitude to them for their tremendous gifts to the entire world. Plus their sense of humour is fantastic!

Ok but what does your movement think of daf reactions?

It's not about where you're from. Because Ashkenazis are 93% European and only 7% Semitic. Very few recognize the European aspect. You need to be different because there is a beauty in diversity. Conflict emerges not from differences, but from mimetic emulation, when people try to emulate others due to desire, which causes the person being emulated to feel alienated from his own identity. So diversity is good.

The joke about being a choosy people rather than "the chosen" people is a cop-out. That is the crux of problems endured by the tribe of Judah. The Jewish tribes have always set themselves apart because of their top spot in the world of humanity. If SHJ is non-theistic, is belief in the Messiah also dismissed? It seems that SHJ has no policy of opposing the delusion of the supernatural, only perpetuating the Jewish family. GROG