I am not sure how to handle MacMillan of Rathdown's critique as I am only ger toshav (a gentile who lives amongst Jews--my wife's family) rather than a Jew. The best way might be to say that Jews have always been a bit clannish given there were 12 tribes of Israel and now there are Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and Mizrahim. Not to mention Smaller Jewish groups such as the Georgian Jews and Mountain Jews from the Caucasus; Indian Jews including the Bene Israel, Bnei Menashe, Cochin Jews and Bene Ephraim; the Romaniotes of Greece; the Italkim or Bené Roma of Italy; the Teimanim from the Yemen and Oman; various African Jews, including most numerously the Beta Israel of Ethiopia; the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia; and Chinese Jews, most notably the Kaifeng Jews, as well as various other distinct but now extinct communities.

So, maybe we could have tartan for each tribe or ethnic Jewish division instead of having one blanket Jewish tartan. As they say, "Two Jews, three opinions".

The thing is that I had a fun time trying to explain why I wear the Forbes tartan when my surname is not Forbes to my wife. She couldn't get the concept of affiliated septs and families. Not sure how that happened when she knows her tribe.

And given that there are tartans for various organisations and loads of other things, why not a Jewish Tartan?

The real question is which one?

Or better yet, what would Jerry Sadowitz say?