Snapshots of Judy-ism or You Have a Right to Remain Jewish

About the Book

“Give it up already!” states a concerned friend about my fret over the decreasing Jewish numbers. I cannot, considering the longest-running hatred toward the Jew—let alone the general challenges of poverty, weather, and family and national associations, or even when the Jew is doing well. We Jews need to take a deep breath to see what we have and what we stand to lose. There is no alternative. After all, as Detective Riback of Las Vegas says so affectionately, “You have the right to remain Jewish.” Thus my eponymous Snapshots of Judy-ism, an encapsulation of Jewish historical and recent affairs through personal anecdotes, compresses characters and polemics for the non-Jew who may be curious about a few Jewish subjects, the Jew about to jump into another religious system, the intermarried Jew, or the Jew considering intermarrying.

About the Author

Judith Solomon Franco’s primary years in a non-Jewish Los Angeles neighborhood in the 1940s left a lasting imprint on her identity as a Jew. How many times has she sat on the porch waiting for her Christian friend to finish up dinner and listening to the evening Catholic radio station to go outdoors to play? Through her circuitous journey, she came home to her Yiddishkeit, which she expresses intermittently throughout her book set against a backdrop of her environment. Mrs. Franco has a bachelor of arts in business and a minor in philosophy. She lives in a growing Jewish community in Las Vegas, Nevada.