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August 29, 2006
Creepy.
If some Holocaust survivors became convinced that their faith had brought them the worst suffering imaginable, and decided it was best and safest to try to give their children a life without the risks associated in their minds with being Jewish, I do not find that "creepy."
Very, very sad -- yes. But "creepy?" Not at all.
Posted by Eric at August 29, 2006 1:24 PM
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found it a bit hard to know what Bernstein's point was. But, at least in one response to a comment it seemed that he was saying it was "creepy" that Jewish families who came to the US (or wherever) after the holocaust hid their ancestory not in the sense that _these people_ were _being_ creepy, or that it was a creepy thing to do, but that it must have been a creepy situation, meaning, I guess, scary. On this reading it finds it scary that people felt like they wanted to hide their Jewish heritage. I don't think that fits very easily with all the post or all he has to say, but it might be more due to unclear writing than anything else.
Posted by: Matt at August 29, 2006 5:26 PM
Bernstein has been driven batty by recent events in Israel. He ignored the carnage on both sides of the recent war in Lebanon and obsessed about media coverage and "staged" photographs.
He was a huge cheerleader for Israel's bombing campaign and after the Israeli government realized that they had made a serious mistake, he has to look for other things to get all irate about.
If anything is a little "creepy" it's his timing on this issue.
Posted by: jcc at August 29, 2006 6:31 PM
Once again I'm reminded how little I deprive myself of by not reading Volokh....
Posted by: Jonathan Dresner at August 30, 2006 2:03 AM