Like Whoopi Goldberg, I equated being Jewish with whiteness. Her suspension solves nothing. Like Whoopi Goldberg, I once thought that Jews were white. In the poor Houston neighborhood where I grew up, religion was everywhere. There was a Christian church at the end of the block on the left, another on the right and one across the street. To me, it seemed like most of my neighbors were Black Baptists like my family, with a few Muslims sprinkled in. There were no Jews that I was aware of. As a kid, I didn't think about Jews as "Jews," or a...