Why Jew is synonymous with counterculture

REMBRANDT, The Sacrifice of Abraham, 1635, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Echoing the commentators debating counterculture on the subject of Lubavitch � no longer a Counterculture I remembered that few weeks ago I was sitting at a table with the next Lubavitcher Rebbe. Somebody asked him about importance of speaking Yiddish to children. The next Lubavitcher Rebbe said:

We are called Ivrim, meaning MeEver or from the other side of the river where the first Jew Abraham was from. This means that a Jew is the one who is perpetually from the �other side�. So in principal it is important to learn with kids a language other than a language of their native country. French in England, English in France, etc. This is so the child has a sense of his essence as an Ivry, which is to have the other perspective on life and see things from where his soul came from on the other side of the river.