You may have noticed that our homepage
has some messages about scotch on it. The Insider was thus inspired to search
out stories that involve drinking the fabled “brown water,” so dubbed by Mara
Levy in her essay, “My
Issues Withy Becoming a Greenberg,” in which she discusses marrying a Jew.
She’s Jewish, too, so this shouldn’t be a problem, but, as happens with so many
problems that shouldn’t matter, it is.
“Is the name Greenberg any more Jewish than Levy? The tiny logical part of my brain does, in
fact, know the answer to this question: of course not. So why, then, am I so
uncomfortable trying on my new last name? Honest answer: I can't shake the
feeling that I'm outing myself to
myself, even though, as my best friend, Meta,
likes to point out, everyone already knows I'm a Jew.”
For the curious minds out there, the essay has nothing to do with
drinking scotch, except that Mara meets her husband when they both order Dewars
(really) at a bar in Tel Aviv.
