NY Observer > Neil Kominsky http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/29174/feed Articles from Observer.com en On Being a Bad Jew http://www.observer.com/node/33254 One of the great things about blogging is that all the stuff I fulminated about in private over the last few years (not getting assigned to write about it for Mainstream magazines) I now have to put down in cyberspace, and take responsibility for. Sometimes people get angry at me, sometimes I go over the line. But I learn a lot about my ideas, and myself. I make mistakes, and I don't get fired or disciplined. I am truly grateful for this experience. It's made me more intellectually and emotionally mature.

A lot of this process, of course, involves my hot-button relationship with my Jewish roots, and my self-description as an "assimilator." I get active comment on this score, a lot of it judgmental. Frankly, I am even grateful to these people.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33254#comments Andover Joseph Lieberman Neil Kominsky Tennessee Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:59:53 -0400 Observer Staff 33254 at http://www.observer.com