I read the blog of a technology innovator. He is Jewish, but non-religious, from New York City.
That always reminds me of a sales rep I had in NYC in the 1980s. When I met her, she said hi, I’m a typical New York Jew. I said, great, I have no idea what that means. She also thought that since I was from Ohio that I was a hayseed farmer. After we went to work making sales calls, we just became the marketer and salesperson trying to make a living.
Back to the tech blogger. He recently asked on his blog, “Why do people hate Jews?”
I have thought about that often during the past week since he posted it in light of the fighting going on right now.
I have no answers from psychology or analysis.
I have no answers to other questions of why one group chooses to hate another. It’s happening all around the world. It’s happening in your neighborhood.
An answer easy to say and evidently impossible to live comes from a teaching by Jesus—Love your enemies.
Maybe, just maybe, we could go out today and show kindness, kindness from the heart, to a person of a different tribe or ethnic identity or sexual identity? Do it twice and it may become a practice—a true spiritual practice.
Faith Venture 
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