I sat on the couch in my parents’ friends living room. We were visiting one evening during my winter break from senior year of college. “Whatever you do, don’t marry a doctor,” my mom’s friend warned me. Her husband was an infectious disease specialist. “He’ll never be around, and you’ll raise the kids yourself,” she added. I wasn’t dating anyone at the time, and I most definitely wasn’t thinking about having kids yet. But this advice went against everything I’d ever been told as a Jewish girl. Growing up in the Jewish community, girls are surrounded by the idealization of...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
