I feel strangely detached from the US presidential election, as though I am not a participant (though with our voting system, I'm not)...
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... but an observer, waiting to see whether I and millions of other Americans are still welcome in our home country.
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Some risk being unwelcome for being not white, not Christian, not straight, or many other groups not part of the Republican "real America".
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Many Jews have died over the last two millennia for being unwelcome in the country in which they were living. But many have moved elsewhere.

Nov 6, 2016 · 11:29 PM UTC

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So I've started seeing this election not as a participant, but as a non-religious Jew waiting to learn...
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... if the results of the referendum say that I will need to be part of the next round of departures for a more welcoming country.
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