"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Wilde

I spent part of my young adulthood privately laughing at all the Jewish women trying to make the world a better place.

I enjoyed a friend's question in the 1980s, "Max, the Jews are about 'eye for an eye', right? And the Christians about 'turn the other cheek' . Then why are there Jewish lawyers in Texas drying to get people off death row?"

As I've mentioned in my stories, I can't IMAGINE any Jew calling another Jew an "antisemite" in the 1960s or 70s. Inconceivable.

Was it all a huge waste of time, all that effort by Jews to make the world a better place? Could they ever imagine that it would be their sons trying to settle everything with a weapon?

Imagine one of their most successful sons, Spielberg, shoot a scene where a woman spy is shot multiple times while her bathrobe falls to the floor in Munich? I know that's a random memory, but it incapsulates Israel's dark side of both misogyny and glorification of violence.

No surprise here, it's almost expected, that it would be women who would die defending Gaza while their warnings dismissed by those...

Your story was so touching. Brought back good memories of the Jewish community as I remember it then. Thanks.