#POTUS#Biden said #Israel’s #military assault in #Gaza after the #Hamas#Oct7 attacks “is not genocide.” “We reject that,” he said, telling an audience of #Jewish ldrs & activists Americans “stand with Israel.”
Many Jewish Americans’ names are radically different from the ones their ancestors were known by in ‘the old country’.
But this taking of a new name for a new country was a choice – not one forced on them, as family lore often has it, by uncaring immigration bureaucracy at Ellis Island.