Marc Cantor's multimedia Haggadah Dave Winer on being Jewish Some thoughts as I head out to Marc Canter's Passover Seder tonight in San Francisco. When I was a kid, being Jewish was something dirty, to be ashamed of. I can't say exactly how I came to this opinion, perhaps there is no reason why. I always hated how smelly and personal Jews were. But then later in life I learned that Irish people are the same way, as are Italians and Russians, even Chinese and Indians.
People are smelly and personal.
Jews have been through a lot of shit. Somehow we're still here. Yes, we make trouble. Everywhere we go. But we also make beautiful movies, and write great books and websites and invent and discover new stuff, and we study, study and study.