Pride

AN IDF officer salutes, at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, in front of a statue of Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the kibbutz's old, ...

May the members of the Jewish nation choose the path of cultural and religious continuity, and not the path that leads to our disappearance. In the Jewish Canon, the Book of Ruth tells of the flight of Elimelech and Naomi to land of Moab during the famine in their time. A recent olah, Rookie Billet retired from a long career as a Jewish educator, principal, shul rebbetzin and yoetzet halacha in the US, and hopes to contribute to life in Israel. It is important to note that there was also a right-wing Revisionist group, the Jewish Military Union, that was actively involved in the revolt. Interestingly, Polish archaeologists led by Jacek Konik succeeded in locating and excavating the exact site of the bunker of Mordechai Anielewicz, commander of the ZOB. Intermarriage terminates the continuity of the Jewish nation. Perhaps that is one of the messages that the author of Ruth was trying to convey. Hence, the death of Newton-John, the non-Jew, was widely covered in Jewish media. [intermarriage,](https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-707068) a phenomenon that is one painful by-product of Jewish acculturation and integration into the broader, multi-cultural society that has surrounded us. But clearly, as the child of a non-Jewish mother, she was not Jewish. Newton-John’s death was widely reported in the Anglo-Jewish press and evoked a lot of pride as a result of her Jewish ancestry. Her maternal grandfather, the physicist, Max Born, was a German Jew who married Hedwig Ehrenberg, a descendant of Rabbi Phillip Ehrenberg (who was influenced by the German Jewish Reform movement).