We are a proud people of ancient heritage.
Our numbers limited comprising a mere
vanishing point in the population of the world.
And the world has since antiquity busied itself
limiting our numbers hoping to see us vanish
from the world's population. Our kind can be
found everywhere in the world, dispersed
scattered, exiled from the land of our origins.
We can be recognized in many colours and a
multitude of beliefs and values yet we are all
of us Jews who over the ages have gained
experience in the fine art of survival. For that
accomplishment it helps enormously to hone
the fine art of distinguishing ourselves from
others and to acquire a sixth sense of danger.
True there are times when it has been impossible
to shelter ourselves from pogroms, blood-letting
persecution and accusations by frenzied mobs
periodically rampaging to the slaughter to
exhaust their psychotic paranoia. The primal
cultivation of awareness and striving to do no
harm to others has satisfied our internal need
yet has accomplished little to persuade others
to allow us to live in peace and security. Should
any argue our status as Chosen this is proof.
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