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[quote=Anonymous]I'll contribute with a slightly different story of same religion discomfort. I am Jewish, observe the High Holidays and Passover but don't keep kosher or do the more minor holidays (though I am conversant with them). One day in college I was walking down the street and was approached by a Lubovitcher (a Hassidic sect that, unusually for Jews, proselytizes -- but only to other Jewish denominations). He asked me if I was Jewish. I was taken aback but didn't want to deny it. He instantly produced a lulav and an etrog, which are used for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. He asked me to repeat the appropriate Hebrew blessings after him and to shake them (a Sukkot ritual). I should have declined, but I was 18 and stupid and I couldn't think how to decline without offending him. So I did it. And felt like such a ridiculous fraud standing there on a public street shaking a lulav and etrog -- things I hadn't thought about or cared about since Hebrew school. It's been almost 20 years and I still remember how foolish and fake I felt. [/quote]

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