Sephiroth and Me: Playing Final Fantasy VII As A Jewish Person
<p>Asa kid, I had no stable connection to my Jewishness except my last name and infrequent visits to my aunt and uncle’s house for Rosh Hashanah. We barely did Passover, I didn’t understand a lick of Hebrew, but my goy mother still brought out the Lenox menorah and made latkes using the recipe from the temple community cookbook for Hanukkah.</p>
<p>I went through public school in a town that was predominantly white and Christian where I was one of five Jewish kids in my graduating class. I was Jewish by last name and ethnicity, not in faith, and yet I had pennies being thrown at me, I was told to bake myself in an oven, and I was the subject of pitying looks during every Holocaust unit. I was an appointed spokesperson of the Jewish struggle for goyim to place their misguided empathy. I was a bagel-eating Jew in every aspect but the nagging anti-semitism by my peers all due to my last name and big nose never stopped.</p>
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