I also have no connection to Judaism or Jewish people, but I have had an interest in it since my teenage years.
Of course growing up in Germany played a role; on a class trip we went to Dachau Concentration Camp and that has stayed with me and is still vivid in my memory decades later.
I love crime novels and at some point I came across the books written by Rochelle Majer Krich (she sadly passed away last year 😭)
Her books were about a LA Detective who discovers she has Jewish roots and starts embracing them and I found it really fascinating.
As someone who comes from an abusive childhood home and who has suffered with depression since I can remember I found it oddly comforting to read about this person finding solace in a religion she didn’t know she was a part of.
Im sorry, I’m probably waffling now, but I stand by what I said, which is that the Jewish community has conducted itself with so much grace in the face of all that hatred.
Love, not hate ought to be their slogan.
Not the Greens’.