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Re: Mahler--Of Course Not

Believe it or not, I am personally no stranger to antisemitism, and due to my peculiar circumstances, I have also had on (rare) occasion Jewish people confide anti-Irish remarks to me, they being ignorant that my mother's family came from County Cork.

So I am under no allusions about Mahler.

My ancestral name (according to myth and legend) was von Marx. There are supposedly three coats of arms in Austria and Germany for von Marx, and all three prominently feature golden Stars of David.

They might allow you to purchase an increment of status or respectability, but, by the same coin, they will make sure that nobody is deceived or uninformed.

NOW, if my original intent was ungenerous or narrow-minded, I probably should regret that. But I have seen religiously-driven cultural narrowness too many times and so perhaps I am hypersensitive to it.

There's an ultra-orthodox Catholic schismatic group up in Massachusetts and they have an active website, blah blah blah and they have these self-declared Holier than the Vatican types who purport to give spiritual counsel through bulletin boards, and the most tragically uproarious exchange I saw was this poor girl wrote in to say that her (valid and licit) Roman Catholic parish was starting to offer Irish Step Dancing Lessons, and was it OK for her to attend and take part?

No, nay, never! quickly came the response. The ultra-orthodox Catholic site told her that all kinds of awful things could happen. They made Irish Step Dancing sound like the gateway drug to the porn industry.

Which reminds me of the famous Jewish joke about the nervous young bridegroom and the Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi...

Shalom,

JM



Edits: 11/03/15

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