The Jewish
struggle of
identity that we battle between each other and within ourselves. It's a
struggle as old as that between God and Jonah, Abraham and Moses, Hillel and Shammai, Jiggin and Schumacher, and now Elman and Batalion.
My mother and I had a YidLife Crisis when she saw me eat a
Lifesaver while fasting on Yom Kippur. My argument was that it was medical because my breath smelled like gedempte. Besides, I didn't enjoy it because it came from
the bottom of my
pocketbook and was covered in schmutz. It was grey!