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Helen Light on younger generation

Helen Light and Mara Moustafine.

Helen Light wonders about the younger generation and its "take" on cultural diversity

Created:

unknown

Date Added:

09 March 2009

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source not available

Format:

mov (Quicktime);

File size:

2.5 MB

Length:

01min05sec

Transcript

Light:

00:15

A lot of our generation’s kids are not marrying Jewish. So their relationship to Judaism is quite complicated. But I think that for their generation, it’s a much more positive experience than it was for us, because a lot of us were Jewish to almost spite Hitler and you know, and it was you know: we are going to survive and we’re going to be Jewish and we’re going to make our own mark in our own way and the – younger kids, they’ve learnt that being Jewish is fun and it’s good because we try –people now choose to be Jewish so they’re – that’s not true of the – of everybody, I mean, of deeply religious families, it’s a different experience, but generally I think it’s fun for kids to be Jewish.

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