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Jessi- I’d like to go someday, also to pay my respects. Other than it’s role in Jewish history I have no real interest. But that’s an emotional choice for me. If I had the money to travel, I would go everywhere and anywhere. So go and enjoy. But i am curious- why Berlin as opposed to say, Paris or Moscow or Venice, for example.
JB, that’s just nonsense. I can kinda sorta understand why people would say not to go there but then those people shouldn’t go to any Muslim countries or most of Europe.
Berlin has loads of Jews living there now and a bunch of synagogues, kosher restaurants, jewish neighborhoods. Germany has kept its doors open for a lot of Jewish refugee immigration from the former USSR in the recent couple of decades.
See I never identify as American unless traveling abroad and I am asked
I always say I am Irish and during the West Indian Day Parade – I am Bajan (as my grandfather was born in Barbados and my dad returned to live with him when his mother died when he was 2)
By donatella on August 25, 2010 2:29 PM
I met a nice young Jewish/Brazilian engineer in Brazil–
That’s pretty much my dream come true (except a female version)
And we are a big social club and our mother’s are in everyone’s biz. :o)
Here’s a question for you Jews – do you think it’s weird that I’m going to Berlin? I’ve been met with a few confused reactions from fellow Jews. Kinda like, why would you *choose* to go *there*? I plan to pay my respects, but don’t think a boycott makes much sense.
“He was carrying on about his mother who had to KNOW EVERYTHING about his life. It seems like as a Jew you are part of a gigantic global social club”
Seems???
Are you new to New York???
Can’t post a comment on THL’s website. Don’t want to register with Google and those other ones don’t really seem to work.
Actually I identify myself as an American, though I also identify myself as culturally Jewish. I don’t tend to think of myself as Russian / Polish (which at the time was really Austria-Hungary) / Hungarian / Lithuanian / Bulgarian / Romanian.