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December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

It was in the wake of WW2 that Jews, among other ethnicity's, became "white". Prior to the war and the economic development of the 1950's Jews, along with Italians (pronounced Eye-taalyuns), Eastern Europeans, and Irish were considered "Ethnic Whites". Where previously the Jew had lived in the immigrant ghetto of the Lower East Side or similar communities they were now mainstreamed modern Americans. I am not one to extol as a vile evil, the notion of cultural cross-pollination. That the Jew has contributed as much to America as America has contributed to the American Jew is a certainty but what was lost was a degree of Jewish free space. In sociological terms, a free space, is a area or institution that exists for and of only members of one group. It allows them breathing space from the rest of society to self-conceptualize and to grapple with their unique identity on their own terms. Many of the endeavours of the Jewish people in America as of late have been an attempt to recover some free space. Moishe House is a prime example, creating an area, an institution of and for young Jewry to conceptualize themselves, the world around them, and their relation as Jews to it.