Sour Milk, Shots of Gin, and Dual Loyalty

<p>The Rabbi’s Ten Days of Repentance began with a bowl of cornflakes topped with rancid milk, which somehow leads to him doing shots of Gin on Simchas Torah…with an MIT fraternity.</p><p>Once we helped him process the milk tragedy, we get into our real discussion.</p><p>We talk about:</p><ul><li><p>Is it American-Jew or Jewish-American? And what two thousand years of never quite belonging has to do with it.</p></li><li><p>Why Jewish emancipation made antisemitism worse, and why America is the one country besides Israel where being Jewish has nothing to do with your rights</p></li><li><p>On the accusation of dual loyalty: Why pointing the accusation at Jews is BS because everybody has more than one loyalty.</p></li><li><p>Haredim, the Amish, and the woman on the train who yelled at the wrong guy in a black hat</p></li><li><p>Three sayings put on trial: everything happens for a reason, God doesn’t give you more than you can handle, and suffering makes you stronger.</p></li></ul><p>Pour yourself something that isn’t gin, hasn’t gone sour, and join us.</p>