As I walked around my religious community on Shabbos, the people who liked me congratulated me on the Jewish Journal cover. The people who didn’t like me continued to shun me. And some people who’ve never spoken to me before approached me.
I told a friend that when I’m honored at the shul annual banquet, he has to buy an entire table.
XYZ emails: "you should be ashamed of yourself. you are not worthy of even remotely being referred to as a jew. the only good thing about that article that I can say is that you have been exposed."