I think the better word in English is “community”.
When I grew up in Gush, I took math and science classes with (and from) Arabs/Egyptians. We all did.
My best friend (and bad influence, bit of a pot smoker) was a Bedouin kid who loved to surf and taught me how to surf. I got him into college, and he’s a doctor in Dallas.
Keeps trying to marry off his sons to my daughters.
One son is so smitten he wants to convert to Judaism, provided they do beans at Passover. That’s subject to possible negotiation, as he is currently a US Marine.
We were very much co-workers. Something like 100 Arabs worked on our farm, at very high wages, as it was skilled labor.
Sharon is my particular idiot I hate.
Bibi has grown on me, as the Likud has shifted. Still don’t trust him. But Obama hated him, which is a great endorsement.
Brandon hates him, too. But he also hates or at least regrets Kamala. So it isn’t proof that he’s come over to the light side of the Force.
I, and several Jews in the surrounding towns, were trying our utmost to save this sick Arab kid who needed enzyme therapy for a rare genetic disorder. We got him to a specialist at Hadassah Ein Kerem, but ultimately we didn’t have the wherewithal to get him the expensive enzyme therapy he needed on a regular basis. I did give about a thousand shekels for a respirator, but the poor tyke passed away anyway. He had beautiful, poetic eyes, like Lord Byron or Coleridge. Remain fast friends with his uncle, who used to clean our house twice a month when we lived in Neveh Daniel.
Beans and the like on Passover are a regular item for eastern Jews, who never accepted the Kitniot decree that Ashkenazim such as us keep. I think converting from Arabian culture to Judaism would make him eastern.
“Sharon is my particular idiot I hate.”
Sharon’s stuck in the annex, waiting to be cleansed in gehinom (Jew hell; similar to Catholic purgatory, for those of you in Rio Linda). Let him wait.