'That's so beautiful:' What happened when a Jewish woman from Nashville spent months talking to a neo

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It was an unlikely encounter between a neo-Nazi and a woman who represented everything he thought he hated.

The result was completely unexpected.

What the woman, who was Jewish, chose to do with that moment may offer a lesson for us all.

I heard about this unlikely encounter when I recently sat down to listen to members of Nashville’s Jewish community about their experiences in dealing with antisemitism.

“So many people,” I observed, “have just never really gotten to know a Jewish person.”

"That's right, and we're not that big of a deal,” said Miriam Leibowitz, drawing hearty laughter from the group.

For the people I met for this conversation, antisemitism has sometimes manifested itself in the strangest of ways.

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