This Pride Stuff Isn't Healthy

I've never understood ethnic, race, gender or sex pride. Even as a kid.

For my bar mitzvah, someone gave me a book titled "Great Jews in Sports" or something like it.

Aside from the usual jokes -- it was not a long book; the print and the photos were very large -- what I remember best was that I had little interest in the book. I loved sports. And I strongly identified as a Jew -- I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home and attended yeshivas until the age...