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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/03/2010 10:23:52 am PST

re: #552 LudwigVanQuixote

Well, on the last part: it may be that the reason they can’t say a prayer in Hebrew or know the holidays is that they never felt fully embraced by the Jewish faith or comfortable with their specific role in it. It may be that what they’re expressing is a sadness contorted into critique.

I know a friend of mine’s daughter is going through that phase right now, where she’ll either accept that she has a specific, female-oriented role in terms of Jewish faith or she’ll reject the faith.

Of course, I’m a Jewish atheist who was raised Catholic, my grandmother denied she was Jewish and came from a long line of crypto-Jews, and my grandfather came from a semi-Crypto carribean Sephardic tradition, so my perspective on Jewish life and faith is from a very warped angle.