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[quote=Anonymous]I started out with several years of being baptized, Sunday schooled and an Episcopalian confirmation, but after my dad had an affair with another mom at church and my mom left him … no more church.

What happened was that very shortly my mom ended up marrying her boss, a lawyer from a Brooklyn orthodox family with half a dozen sons where they were all lawyers, doctors or professors. All of them. No one in that family super liked my mom (the shiksa) but I can at least say that none of them were ever openly mean to me. I did grow up knowing a bunch of them as cousin-type relatives and they had various ties to Israel through meeting spouses at kibbutz etc. Stepdad gave me away at my wedding.

The craziest thing I have seen in 50 years is that while my Catholic Fox watching in-laws could never seem to pronounce half the Yiddish and Hebrew names in my stepdad’s family, they suddenly started asking me “how I felt” about Israel and getting oddly upset when they heard my adult daughter criticizing the country.

They whispered it to me like she was secretly on the crack or something. It was bizarre. They couldn’t tell you what Mazel Tov means. [/quote]

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