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[quote=Anonymous]I hope that whatever my kids chose for themselves and their children some day I will simply respect and not try to undermine. Isn't that what we all want?

The point I want to gently make is your MIL raised your husband in the Christian faith and hoped that he would remain in that faith.  You also are raising them in a faith ( Jewish in this case) and your hope is that you want them to remain Jewish, when they are adults.  I think you said you  wouldn't care because this is the "politically correct" thing to say. But, while I believe you might support them I also believe that you would be hurt if they either left the faith or married someone of a different faith.  If not, why fight so hard over a week of Bible camp?

Religion is all about tradition and don't you think that your MIL is hurting because her dream of Christmas morning or Easter egg hunts have vanished?  Even worse, the DIL is forbidding her to share some aspects of her religion because of "boundaries" and being right at all cost.  Never mind that this rift will affect the relationship between the grandmother and grandchildren.

Can you put yourself in your MIL position at all without saying she is attacking MY religion?  Perhaps bend a little?  If your kids are old enough they are learning from you that it is "my way or the high way"  Is this the lesson you want to pass on?

You can still be "correct" and wrong at the same time.  The world isn't as black and white as you portray it.  But, perhaps you and your MIL have more in common than you think.
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