This is possibly not a national talking point, but, damn it, it should be. According to
a certain article in a Sunday Times supplement magazine last weekend, "British Jewishness has suddenly become a hip cultural talking point." Oh thank you, Sunday Times, for the validation!
"Put it down to a search for exoticism," the magazine suggested. Ah yes – "exoticism". We Jews really are so very Other, what with spooky voodoo ways and our foreign accents. "[Or] maybe it's the attraction of the monetary rewards connected with being Jewish, but today's celebrities are less shy about talking about their roots." You whatty the what? Hey, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Philip Roth – when was it that prominent Jews last hid their faith? 1945, perhaps? And as for "the monetary rewards connected with being Jewish", I cannot deny it, we Jews do hoard our shekels. We gaze upon them adoringly while we rub our hands with Shylockian glee.
"'There's not as much stigma attached to being Jewish as there used to be,'" some talking head added, apparently just having woken up from a nap that began in 1937. Sadly, I couldn't read the rest of the article as my giant hooked nose blocked my view, but I think we all get the picture.