Message to “mainstream” Jews: We don’t all look like Woody Allen or Barbra Streisand. GET OVER IT!

From Racialicious

JC
Okay, maybe this is some of my damnhowdidtheweekendflybysoquicklyagain angst talking, but I’m just gonna run with it. Saw an article in American Jewish Life Magazine about Esti Mamo, an Israeli model. She happens to be Ethiopian, and that of course becomes the focus of the story.

This is yet another instance of “Whoa! Who would have thought that this person of color would be Jewish?” Honestly, it’s so ridiculous. Obviously there are Jews of color. There have been for all of time, and there are many of us around now, actually (in this country, and in Israel). Yet, always this shock and surprise. The “Jewish community” (how much of a community is it when so many of us are not included?) needs to get over it.