A Jew is a Jew is a Jew

A Jew is a Jew
and is always a Jew
. He who thinks he can change from a Jew,
is still a Jew.

For a Jew is a Jew
just the same.

So Reform is a Jew,
and a Conservative a Jew,
and an Orthodox a Jew,
Reconstructionist a Jew.

For a Jew is more than a name.

Not so Reform,
is somebody’s norm
like a Conservative is.
He is a Jew as he is.

G-d sees us all
at the Jerusalem Wall
For a Jew is a Jew just the same.

Now what I was saying,
will take more than just praying,
trying and conveying,
what I was portraying,
or whether Tefillin was laying.

For a Jew is a Jew just the same.

So put away what you know
for G-d made us so;
what has been granted to us is the same.

At Sinai no one questioned who was who;

and we were all there.

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from the February 2008 Edition of the Jewish Magazine

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