What's your Jewish volume?

I’m all for metaphors! The problem with this one is that it doesn’t work so well. In the audio world its usually a bad thing when you have the volume turned all the way up. It generally causes distortion, has the potential for causing hearing loss and all other kinds of bad things. Actually, the metaphor works better for those Jews who would suggest too much Jewish activity could cause a person to stop listening to non-Jews or non-Jewish ideas. The volume metaphor would suggest that having a high Jewish volume gives you a distorted outlook on reality. I agree that “affiliation” has lots of problems, but “volume” has some problems of its own. Shai Gluskin