NOVEMBER 23, 2023.

The sky is shy today, she wants rain and snow but she hesitates, as the climate is over thirty. But outdoors isn’t of concern these last sixty days. I never felt more Jewish than now, a reclamation of my upbringing, that I was too rebellious to take seriously, now it is a cancerous disease, antisemitism. I asked my friend who grew up in Istanbul in a surrounding of Jewish Armenians. Why do people hate Jews?.

” They are jealous, most Jewish people are educated, and learn at a young age to develop ambition, to make a better life.”

” That’s it? Jealousy?”

” I think so.”

Armen has been the best believer for me in twenty years. If I didn’t have her confidence, I’d have flattened over the last five years. Everyone needs a friend like that, she presses my buttons, sometimes I say stop, then she says I’m sorry, and we go on.