[Dave1215]

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Here is a link to a very interesting New York Times article from Monday (6/26/08):

A Young Man From Omaha, Who May Perfectly Represent Brooklyn

A few excerpts from the NY Times article...

Yosef Abrahamson, 16,.... Hasidic Jew of color.....

Thanks to his Egyptian father, who left the family when Yosef was young, and his maternal grandfather, who was of African descent by way of Panama, Yosef looks African-American (though his family prefers to describe themselves as Jews of color, believing their culture to be exclusively Jewish). Yosef ....... having lived in Omaha, where his mother’s maternal family, German Jewish merchants, had settled several generations earlier.

If Yosef, .......ever finds himself writing a college application essay, his advisers would have a hard time choosing which of his compelling story lines would most dazzle those college admissions officers: The story of growing up in the only Hasidic family in Omaha? Or the story of being the only student of color in his yeshiva? Or maybe the story of being the only Hasidic person of color in Omaha’s competitive ice skating circuit?

...the surprising combination of his race and his particular form of religious observance fazed no one in Omaha....

It was easier for Ms. Abrahamson to raise her children in Omaha .....
“People are laid-back in Omaha,” she said. “It’s different there.”

Interesting story....

[kdbrich]

we have a competitive ice skating circuit?

[2Adam29]

He doesn't want Obama? He's not representing Omaha youth then. lol