Being A Jew Is...

I am just rephrasing Ernst Gellner's witty and intelleigent remark from his 1983 book, Nations and Nationalism, p. 107, which I found here, p. 27:-

Being a Jew is like being aware of sex or death: it is a reality always present,

you can't escape it, there are no known solutions and one finds people talking about

it as if it really wasn't there.

^