Hot pastrami and the decline of secular, Jewish-American identity

in the news | January 21, 2015

The Atlantic

Peter Beinhart:

In the grand drama of American Jewish assimilation, there are winners and losers. And painful as it is to imagine the knish being deposited in history’s dustbin, that’s where it may be going – smeared with mustard, of course.

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