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My take on Jewish Bernie: his Vermont community is Jewish. He does Jewish like most Jewish Americans, on holidays (but not always). He knows the prayers. Like many Jewish Americans, he filters his politics through his antecedents Jewish experience, of suffering...
...and through his own, which includes his time in Israel (don’t underestimate that period in how it shaped him.) Like many Jews of his generation talking about his Judaism seemed somehow risky. I’m among the reporters who were frustrated by his holding back...
...in 2014 he yelled at me for asking and I wondered what the hell did he think would happen when a JTA reporter asked for an interview. But having grappled with that reluctance among Diaspora Jews of his generation to speak candidly about their identity I also was ...
... unsurprised and pleased to see him open up in mid-2016, and his openness has been consistent. Now one can argue that his principal expression of Jewish identity, through advocacy for the oppressed, is flawed, but it is also how millions of American Jews express...
....their identity. Coupled with his private practice (which includes at times attendance at a Chabad shul!), the idea that Sanders is somehow unJewish is unbelievably gross. End.
