(Jewish Group) We should be proud of the very Jewish RBG
Among the pictures of the spontaneous vigil that popped up following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one image caught my eye. Many of the homemade signs that mourners had brought to the Supreme Court late Saturday night were striking, testament to the way the judge had, in her final decade, become a pop culture icon. “We won’t let you down, RBG” read one. “She brought us this far, now it’s our turn,” read another, held by one of the countless young women who were among Ginsburg’s most devoted supporters.
But the one I noticed was subtly different, with two small images painted into the corner of the placard. One was the circle-with-a-plus sign of womanhood and the other was a Star of David.
It gave me a small pulse of pride and an instant sense of connection with the sign-bearer. She clearly felt her own pride in a judge who had risen to the highest court in the land — and the best-known court in the world — and had done so as a woman and a Jew.
The more I read about RBG, the more I felt it: pride that a woman of such legal brilliance, of such devotion to the principle of equality before the law, of such defiant courage in confronting sexism, and of such indefatigable professionalism, was a fellow Jew. It was as if the glow around Ginsburg was one that all Jews could bask in.
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