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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And if you don't make an effort in this society, your kids turn out Christian regardless of what you believe. [/quote]

I was in agreement with you until here.  I'm Jewish, I have made no effort whatsoever, and my kids have turned out to be atheists and are pretty into being atheists at an early age.  Of course, like everything else, it is going to depend largely on the friends that kids associate with. I don't think OP should send her kids to the camp, but no need to overgeneralize.   [/quote]

This is me you're quoting up above and I probably wasn't being clear.  I didn't mean that the kids turn out Christian in the sense that they're believers.  I meant they turn out "Christian" in the sense that they have the same mainstream cultural identity as the rest of the country.  They don't learn Jewish traditions, they don't care about them particularly, they don't identify as Jewish -- even as Jewish atheists.

My kids are almost 16 and 13 1/2, and neither of them is "religious."  But they have both had bar/bat mitzvahs, the older one got confirmed this year (his choice), and they both identify as Jewish.  Again, this was important to me not because I felt that either of my kids needed to believe in God, or be practicing Jews, but because I wanted them to understand where they come from.

That's what the OP's in laws are trying to disrupt.  They are trying to instill a different identity in these kids that is counter to what the parents have agreed on.  It's hard enough raising Jewish kids ...[/quote]

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