I don’t see what is the big issue.

Jewish people I have known.

Joe Ruben, my father’s tax accountant was a soft-spoken kindly man.  And he had a nice family with three kids.  Kids I went to school with.  Most of all he had a swimming pool he let we Christian kids swim in.

Then there was Al Fishman and his cute sister Roxanne.  I went to school with them both from elementary up to high school.  Their father must had been an orthodontist.  Both Al and Roxanne had the biggest brightest toothy smiles.

Then there was Mark Safer.  A kid who thought he was a car.  Almost always putt putting around like he was a hotrod.

Harvey Issman, a bashful kid who took lots of kidding and didn’t seem to mind it. 

However, for a short while I worked at a department store near Beverly Hills.  It was called Ohrbach’s.  I worked in the credit department and helped many Jewish people. 

One girl who I worked with was an heir to the MCA Universal fortune, even though she left the family and didn’t want anything to do with them.  One teen Jewish girl I also worked with was such a smart and smiley person and easy to get along with and was most helpful to me.

One customer, a fur wrapped older Jewish woman gave me advice on how to clean my glasses.  Obviously I had spots on my glasses.  “Just take some hand soap and rub it around the glass then Rince.”  I just wanted to hug her she was so sweet and thoughtful.

Then a man I recognized came in with a credit problem. His name was Milt Caman and was at that time on a weekly TV sitcom.  Look him up on Wikipedia. 

All in all, I am not sure why non-Jewish people have issues with Jewish folks.  I found them open and approachable.  Oh, I forgot.  There was this Jewish man who was a taylor who also worked at Ohrbach’s.  I was at lunch in the employee lunch room and he came up to me and asked to sit at my table and was one of the friendliest persons.  He obviously wanted to get to know me and welcome me to Ohrbach’s.  Just another kindly man.

None the less, I am not sure how or why some people do not care for the Jewish people.  They seem as human as the rest of us.  But maybe a bit more enterprising and grounded in tradition than some of us.  Shalom.