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Amy Sheldon, for instance, a feminist Jewish professor at the University of Minnesota, and part of a liberal Jewish community, married a non-Jew.I was not ready, she laments, for the messages I got from my own people ...It is hard to live with the idea that a whole community is capable of automatically turning against me and my family. [Sheldon p.79] This included racist comments about one of her child's blonde hair and the fact that he didn't look Jewish.In an Orthodox context, a Jew who had the misfortune to have red hair in a Haradim community spoke of his difficulty in finding a wife: [Other Jews] thought I looked too much like a goy [non-Jew]. [MacDonald p.214]