Sometimes I say to my kids, when they're complaining, "It must be so hard to be you, dear." Nasty, I know. But I promise, I say it with the best motherly “I love you now stop complaining” smile you can imagine. And that's usually followed by making hot cocoa from scratch and throwing some marshmallows into the cup.
But lately, I've been thinking about how hard it can be to be a Jew. And I'm wondering, do Catholics or Protestants, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, Unitarians, Congregationalists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Agnostics, Atheists, Gnostics, Buddhists, Muslims - does anyone who is a member of one of these categories ever feel, It's so hard to be (fill in the blank of the denomination or nationality)?
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