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One thing I will say is that just recently Donald Trump married off a daughter to a frum guy (she converted), and now I hear that Bill Clinton’s daughter is engaged to a Jewish guy. Without getting into the halachic issues, but I can’t help feeling a sense of I don’t know what, call it pride, if you wish, but the Jews have come a long way here. Years ago there were strict quotas in all the Ivy League schools to keep shlumpy looking, untidy Jews out, along with quotas on immigration to the USA, and now we are making shidduchim with all the big knockers here in this country. We are no longer viewed as black sheep.

However, there is the flip side of anti-semitism which is that even when the Jews do become culturally integrated, the reverse sometimes happens where the non-Jews say the Jews are too powerful and control everything, etc. When we have looked too poor we have run into trouble and when we have looked too rich we have run into trouble.

However, at this point in time we all must be grateful that at no other time in history have we had it so good both in the USA and in Israel.