I must say that to simply assert that there are so many ways of being Jewish is such a cliche. Yes, there are so many ways, but wouldn't they include Jewish expereinces? What is a Jewish experience? It's not a trick question; to be sure, it should be obvious. The fact of the matter is that Jewish experience is becoming less and less pronounced in novels, short stories and film. Yes, several scholars bemoan this, and rightfully so. We must not forget that Jewish literature is based on Jewish culture and Jewish experience. If the former and latter become indistinguishable from American culture, then Jewish literature goes out the window. Face the facts, being Jewish can not live on ironic or smatterings of Jewishness in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Meet the Fokkers and so on. The anti-essentialist, I'm Jewish and different is beginning to wear thin. Yes there are many expressions of Jewishness, and I don't think there should be a monolithic expression of it. But Judaism has yet to express Jewishness with a real diifference. Hebe magazine tries to do so, and so has a movie like the Hebrew Hammer, but, ultimately, David Itzkovitz, who has recently written on this topic in You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern America (Rutgers UP, 2006), finds this difference also suspect. I agree with him. Secular Jews, if they take Jewish identity seriously, and not as some ironic joke, need to take this seriously; otherwise, there will be problems for this project.