Unit 2

Hi,

This week we discussed the ethnic divisions of the Jewish people. It was a fascinating journey though the halls of history. I was saddened by the examples I saw in the Jewish experience and realize that their experience is much as everyone Else's. We draw lines between ourselves, boundaries that keep us apart. I think if those boundaries were not readily apparent we would seek them out. If they are not found I think we might create them. What does that mean for us? What does that say about us....all of us?

Why do we always need someone or something to fear. Why do we always define ourselves by the "other". Why is it so hard to see we are all family and it is little more than chance and happenstance that we are where and when we are. Perhaps it's because the exploiter class wants it that way. If we took the time to realize how much we have in common we might come to realize that we're not enemies...in fact we are both victims.