Welcome to coming out with Judy Gold. I'm your host, Judy Gold, and I am a very congested

Judy Gold because I have allergies. I don't know if you can hear it. I can hear it, and there's a lot going on up there.

So thank you for tuning in, and we have part two of my interview with Atom Burnath, Cookbook author,

Foodie, 20-year-old, 90-year-old. I mean, it's crazy, and his book is great, so get us a book.

And also, if you live near Norwall, Connecticut, the incredible Jessica Curson and I will be doing a show together on Thursday, June 2nd at the Wall Street Theatre in Norwall, Connecticut.

It is going to be high-larious, okay? And I'll have more dates at the end of the episode, but if you are in Connecticut, get your ass there to the Wall Street Theatre.

I'm June 2nd, and sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

All right, let me just tell everyone, 2015, you won Havards Power of Judaism Award, Svio Sushen, you in 2016, you won the Rising Star Award at Kosher Fest,

and your whole approach was finding the comfort foods of other cultures, which I love, because I think that's such a Jewish comfort food is so Jewish.

Do you know what I mean?

I think that, you know, for me, you kind of mentioned this earlier, but I think you know, also, you know, as Jewish people, I think saying that I try to sometimes talk about is I think that, you know, a lot of people, you know, it's so easy in our communities to, like, think everyone knows about you, like, most people don't know about.

Nothing, absolutely nothing.

And I think that, you know, it's important for I think people to know, you know, the history behind Jewish people, you know, even, like, I, saying that I, I'm talking about crazy often, but, you know, I have to, of course, like, I do not identify as white.

I mean, I identify as Ashkenazi Jewish, you know, we're only white, or white, passing here in the US, but I mean, throughout all of Jewish history.

Well, everywhere else, we're not, you know, that great, so yeah, master rate that, you know, and even the reason that we end up having white skin was because we were kicked out of the Middle East, right?

And we were expelled and then had to go to Europe. And so I think that, you know, obviously, as, as a Jew in America, obviously, you have to be conscious, you know, of course, we benefit from my privilege, we pass as white, but, you know, at the end of the day, I think that, and a lot of people don't realize that, but Ashkenazi Jews is, I think,

most Ashkenazi Jews do definitely do not identify as white. And, you know, the way I say it's in the eyes of, you know, an anti-Semite or Nazi, you know, we're not, we're not, we're not, well, you know, and we know it, because we listen to all that, you know, like, I know, I just had this happen to me. I was doing something, and one of the people I was working with, I asked, I said, can you recommend the certain product? And the person said,

oh, you'll like this one, because it's less expensive. So the Jewish part, you, because it's your Jewish, you'll like this one, and I, I don't want to get the person fired, you know, and the person is also a minority, but it's like, it's very, because, yes, you're absolutely right, because we don't, we don't feel like, like, we, when we're around a bunch of non-Jewish people,

people, you feel like the Jew, even though you look like them, don't you feel like, we feel like other?

Yeah, I mean, I was, I mean, the ADL just released, I mean, in 2021, anti-Semitic incidents were up by 43%, you know, I mean,

we're less than 2%, less than 2% of the population in the US.

Over 60% of hate, of religious crimes. Yeah, the overall majority of all religion and like ethnicity-based hate crimes are against Jews.

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