re: #5 Alouette

I call her standards “arbitrary” in the sense that “well, it is good enough for me!” and “I am better than…(pick the worst of the worst to be better than)”

There are millennia-old laws and traditions in Judaism regarding Jewish identity and these cannot be thrown out because some “ultra-Orthodox” have imposed additional stringencies in the past 40 years, just as some American liberal Jews have relaxed their observance for the past 150 years.

Ah, okay. I see what you’re getting at now now. Thanks for the clarification.

OT: Is your new profile pic you & your mom? Just wondering…lovely photo, beautiful lady.