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By Jonah Kornspun

Would you cut your wings off to land in heaven?
Radio, I couldn’t find you standing right here
Things ain’t been the same since like nine eleven
But think about it, I wouldn’t write that song then, You’d feel that fear
My dear, It should be clear.

There’s this feeling I can’t stand
Where I’m at the edge of an impetus
But I’m infinitesimally scared
Cause I saw a little flash of you just taking my hand
I need to find you, fight to wind up
Stand at the bodega with a gun and suicidal
Tendency toward admission
But of course you’re getting sweaty when you’re headed for the pit

And you think that i might blow up
Gaslight me til the sun glow up
You resemble a cosmic love
No, imagination couldn’t dream us up
The look when we work it out
Dance with me til lights give out
We make each other shine dont turn me down
Tell me what you want,
You tell me

There’s this feeling I can’t stand
Where I’m at the edge of an impetus
But I’m infinitesimally scared
Cause I saw a little flash of you just taking my hand
I need to find you, fight to wind up
Stand at the bodega with a gun and suicidal
Tendency toward admission
But of course you’re getting sweaty when you’re headed for the pit

I saw the fire yesterday, the snowy wait
it looked like fireworks, in the quiet town that grew me
oh and i remember years ago, watching subway takes
You like that our phones are listenin', and i disagree
You want to risk it all, well take your hand
i did that yesterday in the quiet town i grew up in

All rise for the gospel
Devotion, address the counsel
I'm open to some solution
the overwhelming
verdict, redact the names
of the convicts
protect the criminals
perversion in secrecy supersedes the

Pardon, The jury finds you responsive
so seal the cracks in the airwaves, the super
surveillance computer is solving for us
Now

This is a lengthy post. I have a lot to say and haven’t spoken about this much in my life. Hope that’s alright.

I was raised in a non-religious household that taught me to treat others equally, not to generalize, stereotype, or assume things about other people based on religion, sexuality, race, or gender. I’ve always believed that it’s categorically inappropriate to belittle someone for their culture, heritage or background.
My father’s side of my family is Jewish, many of whom are devoutly religious. They go to temple regularly, pray, eat kosher, and celebrate every holiday. I have great memories each year of spending every Hanukah lighting the menorah and reading prayers and going to Passover with my extended family.
I’ve always experienced some anti-semitism growing up, though I lived in a small rural community with a small school system and quite a few Jewish students in my graduating class. College was great! I thought, either antisemitism is overhyped, not that prevalent anymore, or just not that impactful.

I got out into the wider world and realized I could not have been more wrong. And it’s not getting better
Since October 7th and the subsequent military response, things have only gotten worse. I’m consistently having rude, hateful and exclusionary comments of people insisting to me that I AM Jewish by the way I look, my hair which grows in curly and thick, and various facial features and aspects of my personality, accusing me of being a terrible person because of my alleged “Jewishness”. Now… I love Jewish people and if you want to ask something like “are you Jewish?” and talk to me about it, it’s usually fine. when someone is weaponizing a perception of my life and turning it into a way to alienate me from groups and TRYING TO make me feel like I have to be apologetic for being BORN of a certain bloodline and having certain characteristic that they deem inferior and weaponizing the fact that I was raised and cared for by a particular religion, makes my blood boil.

I have cut off many supposed friends, sometimes years into my relationship for snarky, conspiratorial, and downright idiotic ideas of my what they perceive my identity to be. Antisemitic people say these things to me, everywhere I go, completely unprompted and take advantage of my willingness to remain visibly calm and collected and have open discussions with others about their biases. I’ve quit jobs because of an old white anti-Semitic employer calling a coworker antisemitist slurs in front of me on a day where business was good because he thinks it’s funny, been teased and heckled by complete strangers, had my online posts and content brigaded with anti-Semitic slurs.

I just want to close this off by saying, I can only imagine what those of you who are, you know, Jewish deal with in terms of discrimination and all of this confirms what I’ve felt all along, which is I respect the struggle you face. I don’t care why people feel like they have to be so horrible to each other, they should just stop.

TLDR: my father’s Jewish, Im atheist and I’m experiencing a form of racial profiling. Don’t know where to turn and feel like it would be helpful to share my story.

This is a lengthy post. I have a lot to say and haven’t spoken about this much in my life. Hope that’s alright.

I was raised in a non-religious household that taught me to treat others equally, not to generalize, stereotype, or assume things about other people based on religion, sexuality, race, or gender. I’ve always believed that it’s categorically inappropriate to belittle someone for their culture, heritage or background.
My father’s side of my family is Jewish, many of whom are devoutly religious. They go to temple regularly, pray, eat kosher, and celebrate every holiday. I have great memories each year of spending every Hanukah lighting the menorah and reading prayers and going to Passover with my extended family.
I’ve always experienced some anti-semitism growing up, though I lived in a small rural community with a small school system and quite a few Jewish students in my graduating class. College was great! I thought, either antisemitism is overhyped, not that prevalent anymore, or just not that impactful.

I got out into the wider world and realized I could not have been more wrong. And it’s not getting better
Since October 7th and the subsequent military response, things have only gotten worse. I’m consistently having rude, hateful and exclusionary comments of people insisting to me that I AM Jewish by the way I look, my hair which grows in curly and thick, and various facial features and aspects of my personality, accusing me of being a terrible person because of my alleged “Jewishness”. Now… I love Jewish people and if you want to ask something like “are you Jewish?” and talk to me about it, it’s usually fine. when someone is weaponizing a perception of my life and turning it into a way to alienate me from groups and TRYING TO make me feel like I have to be apologetic for being BORN of a certain bloodline and having certain characteristic that they deem inferior and weaponizing the fact that I was raised and cared for by a particular religion, makes my blood boil.

I have cut off many supposed friends, sometimes years into my relationship for snarky, conspiratorial, and downright idiotic ideas of my what they perceive my identity to be. Antisemitic people say these things to me, everywhere I go, completely unprompted and take advantage of my willingness to remain visibly calm and collected and have open discussions with others about their biases. I’ve quit jobs because of an old white anti-Semitic employer calling a coworker a “Jew bastard” in front of me on a day where business was good because he thinks it’s funny, been teased and heckled by complete strangers, had my online posts and content brigaded with anti-Semitic slurs.

I just want to close this off by saying, I can only imagine what those of you who are, you know, Jewish deal with in terms of discrimination and all of this confirms what I’ve felt all along, which is I respect the struggle you face. I don’t care why people feel like they have to be so horrible to each other, they should just stop.

TLDR: my father’s Jewish, Im atheist and I’m experiencing a form of racial profiling. Don’t know where to turn and feel like it would be helpful to me to share my experience.

like a food pantry or a soup kitchen? im in port chester.