Learning He was Jewish on Rosh Hashana

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Sam Adams found out
Via DNA testing
On Rosh Hashanah
He was part Jewish.

That he indeed
was part Jewish.
maybe 10% according to the DNA test
confirming family lore.

He went to dinner with Jewish friends
Celebrating his first Rosh Hashana
As a Jewish man.

the next day while touring the holocaust museum
For the first time in his life
Sam Adams encountered three young white MAGA boys

Wearing red hats and making
Sexually suggestive jokes about Jewish women
While they were touring the holocaust museum.

One wondered if the Nazi guards
Were given an opportunity
To have sex with Jewish women
Before they were killed.

Sam Adams was very angry
and wanted to confront the MAGA boys
But finally decided what the hell,

It probably would not
Make a difference
They might think that he was just
An old Jewish man.
And dismiss his complaints.

The holocaust museum moved him deeply
And he vowed to himself
that he would do all he could to make sure
The world would never see another holocaust.




NEW PROMPT: This evening at sundown is the start of Rosh Hashana ("beginning of the year"), the Jewish civil new year. The Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, so the observance moves around year to year from the perspective of the Gregorian calendar, but it usually occurs in September or October. Write a story or poem centered around an event that happened on Rosh Hashana.