Joachim Martillo has pointed out to me that a Chicago judge who dissented in the Feinberg intermarriage case made a covert reference to Theodor Herzl. Judge Alan Greiman thought dentist Max Feinberg's limitation on his will to descendants who married Jews was legal, and wrote: "Max and [wife] Erla had a dream with
respect to the provisions of their will and if you will it, it is no
dream."
Herzl said the same thing, If you will it it is no dream… Apparently the Chicago Trib reporter who quoted Greiman did not know this. (Certainly I missed it…)
That's weird and upsetting. That the case gets infused with Zionism. Although it demonstrates the principle that assimilation and Zionism are opposed. And raises the question of whether the judge is a Zionist and secret about it. And what does that mean to his rulings?
Couple other thoughts on the comments to my last post on this. Whether or not it was legal/a private matter for Max Feinberg to declare "dead" those of his five grandchildren who married non-Jews, it's an ugly, sad statement and evidence of bigotry. And it applies to 80 percent of Feinberg's grandchildren. Maybe they were fleeing that stuffy room of his prejudice. And applies to 62 percent of all Jewish grandchildren in America these days… Young Jews are marrying out. They are marrying out like Protestant kids are marrying out of their stuffy rooms, and for reasons just as honorable (love, attraction, dough-re-mi) as Jews who marry in. And in the age of Obama there will be more and more of 'em. So this truly is the State of the Jews (to quote Herzl, 112 years on): the kids are voting with their feet and gaily assimilating and it is causing emotional/political turmoil among the ethnocentric Zionistas. Thus Leon Wieseltier keening at AIPAC that the Jewish state cannot count on young Jews to support it, no we need Pastor Hagee. Another thing: I told my wife that Richard Witty said that she was fully accepted by my family when we got married, and so who dare accuse liberal educated Jews of ethnocentrism! Richard has certainly been great to my wife on the couple occasions they've met but he doesn't fully know her experience. I'm going to talk to her and see how much she wants me to say about her experience on my blog. By the way, she is the one who coined the expression, anti-anti-semitism.
