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Rubbing along?

That’s definitely rubbing all of those animals the wrong way, I know, but you get the picture.

With people, I think it can actually, easily, be worse, knowing how terrible humans sometimes treat each other when the going gets tough.

Anyways, like I said, you get the picture.

In short, to rub along generally in society is to plod on without getting yourself in great trouble; to rub along well with other people is to be able to deal with them peacefully and more or less amicably without causing major problems, that is, in spite of obvious difficulties and against the odds – for let’s face it, we’re expected to face problems if we are rubbing shoulders with others in close quarters for long, again, humans being human and not always humane.

All right, here are media examples of people “rubbing along”, or struggling to rub along:

1. What does it mean to be both British and Jewish and how has this identity evolved over hundreds of years of Jewish settlement in the UK?

This question is being posed at a five-day seminar on Jewish identity at the London Jewish Cultural Centre (LJCC) in Golders Green which runs until Friday (August 24).

Titled From Poland to Polo in Three Generations? The event will probe the historical, religious and cultural changes within Britain’s Jewish community.

The title is taken from the journey of one family, the Gershons, whose patriarch, Gershon Duplinsky, was born in Poland in 1880 and settled in London a decade later. His great grandson, Monty Gershon, is now a member of the exclusive Guards polo club at Windsor.