Comedic 'Jews With Tools' Kinnelon Author's First Book
Volunteer and 27-year borough resident writes mostly true stories about personal mishaps and adventures.
Jon Horovitz has never been good with his hands and, until now, that may have seemed like a bad thing. But Horovitz's non-handiness has helped cultivate subject matter for his new book, "Jews With Tools: Incredible True Stories of Life in Jewburbia," released in December. Despite not being a religious person, being Jewish is a big part of the 55-year-old Kinnelon resident's life. "I've always been the only Jew, whether it's been growing up, going away to college in the southern part of Virginia...growing up, I always thought I was the only Jew around," he said. In the writer's prologue of the book, Horovitz explains that he means no offense to the Jewish people and that readers should not feel such a way. Horovitz said the book was …
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9:18 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Actually, Mr. Dean, the word, “Jew” is not a derogatory term. It is the same as calling someone Catholic, Muslim, or Buddhist, or from an ethnic standpoint, Irish, Italian or Asian. The issue arises when biased, anti-semitic people use the word in a derogatory manner that has caused people to believe that the word Jew is a negative term. In our school, we teach our children to proclaim their … more ›