Ann,First-time poster, longtime admirer of your blog.The "shtetl mentality (and the even more pointed term ghetto Jew) refers to Jews who were unwilling or unable (but mostly unwilling) to fight back against the ostracism and persecution visited upon them (in the shtetls and, later, in the Nazis'---and their allies'---ghettos.Many people do not realize this now, when Israelis are routinely demon