NY Times: My Jewish Charlie Brown Christmas

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@tamagotchi

Back in Germany they had been reform Jews (or whatever they called it in Germany, I’m not sure the reform movement had that name back then), and had Christmas trees

The Soviet Jews have New Year’s trees

Soviet Jews & The Jewish 'Christmas' Tree

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@Hanna

If I went and got baptized as a Catholic, I would still be an Ashkenazi Jew.

It’s in our blood.

“We show that … it is possible to predict full Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry with 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity.”

How Ashkenazi Jewish are you?

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@Hanna

My grandmother, born in Chicago in 1917, was resolutely secular – even a Communist in the '30s.

A fine Jewish tradition in its own right

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@oldmom4896

I once met an Israeli woman living in Connecticut who grew up in a kibbutz in Israel where they had feasts on Yom Kippur, just to show their secularity (is that a word?). That stopped with the Yom Kippur war.

Even the Jewish atheist knows quite precisely what the god in whom he doesn’t believe expects of him. ~Leonard Fein

[vwlizard]

My husband loves to tell people:

Husband: VWlizard’s Ancestry results came back that she’s 99% Eastern European Jew.

Anyone he talks too: Wow. What’s the other 1%?

Husband: Other Jew.

Seriously. Those were my results. It literally said, “other Jew”.

[lkg4answers]

That’s me as well.

[vwlizard]

Yeah, we’re probably related somewhere down the line. I told my mom I married a Catholic to diversify the gene pool.