Jewish Guilt: I Am Done Passing It from One Generation to the Next
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In my family, many beautiful traits and qualities have been passed down from one generation to the next. There is my deep love for people, my dark brown hair, my athletic ability.
There are also the not so good qualities, the ones that have not served me very well: my prematurely gray hair, sensitive skin, the breast cancer diagnosis I received more than six and a half years ago. And then there is the guilt—the serious dose of Jewish guilt that has followed me around like my shadow.
I have felt this invisible...