I have my own version of finding role models.<\/p>\n
When I was 10 years old going to CofE schools in the UK I told my mum a joke from the playground which, it turned out, was anti-Semitic. I was told by her that ‘we don’t say jokes like that Daniel, because we are Jews’.<\/p>\n
Of course I wanted to find out exactly what that meant and the only place you will find Jews in abundance in a Christian school is in religious studies class.<\/p>\n
So you may imagine my astonishment when I found them all and not only that, that they were the reason for school assembly, the songs, the prayers, and my teachers actually talked about a Jewish man being god on earth.<\/p>\n
And that is also when I began to understand absurdity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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