Comments on: Pondering Profiling http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/ The blog of a British freelance writer living in New York Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Izzy http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3829 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:52:20 +0000 http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3829 And it's also not easy to distinguish a Hassid from an ultraorthodox or orthodox "black-hatter".... And it’s also not easy to distinguish a Hassid from an ultraorthodox or orthodox “black-hatter”….

]]> by: Izzy http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3826 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:29:24 +0000 http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3826 Judaism is not an ethnicity per se. There are African Jews. There are Arab (Mizrahi) Jews. Westerners seem to think that all Jews look like Ashkenazis...but they don't! And don't forget converts come in all colors... Judaism is not an ethnicity per se. There are African Jews. There are Arab (Mizrahi) Jews. Westerners seem to think that all Jews look like Ashkenazis…but they don’t!

And don’t forget converts come in all colors…

]]> by: Wellsy http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3824 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:12:43 +0000 http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3824 May 17, 2003 - A suicide bomber dressed as a religious Jew, and wearing an explosive belt, blew himself up in Hebron's Gross Square, killing two Israeli civilians. May 17, 2003 - A suicide bomber dressed as a religious Jew, and wearing an explosive belt, blew himself up in Hebron’s Gross Square, killing two Israeli civilians.

]]> by: pdberger http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3811 Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:17:07 +0000 http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3811 True. But Jews in general can be pretty dark-skinned, especially in the summer. During my first year in Russia, when I learned to speak Russian by ear, very few Russians ever guessed I was from the UK. The nearest they got was France. But most thought I was from Georgia, Ukraine or one of the 'stans! True. But Jews in general can be pretty dark-skinned, especially in the summer.

During my first year in Russia, when I learned to speak Russian by ear, very few Russians ever guessed I was from the UK. The nearest they got was France. But most thought I was from Georgia, Ukraine or one of the ’stans!

]]> by: Tova http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3787 Sun, 31 Jul 2005 06:43:16 +0000 http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3787 Hassidic Isreali jews can be fairly dark skinned, though it is more unusual to see one in America than, say, in Israel. Hassidic Isreali jews can be fairly dark skinned, though it is more unusual to see one in America than, say, in Israel.

]]> by: callie is chatty http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3777 Sun, 31 Jul 2005 03:12:54 +0000 http://pdberger.com/racial-profiling/#comment-3777 In Isreal a guy who blew up a bus was disguised as a religious Jew. It happened there it can happen anyplace. In Isreal a guy who blew up a bus was disguised as a religious Jew.

It happened there it can happen anyplace.

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