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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t religious beliefs and culture interwoven?
With most of the holidays having religious meaning.
For example how do secular Jewish people tell their kids why they shouldn’t eat pork ?

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Some secular Jews do eat pork. Others who don't will say they don't eat pork in honor of their ancestors who didn't eat pork, or they don't eat pork because starving Jews were sometimes offered pork during the Holocaust as a form of torture.[/quote]

I have never heard stories of starving Jews being offered pork as a form of torture and I kind of doubt that really happened. Jews were starved in the camps but the Germans wouldn’t have had spare meat to give them and Judaism is pretty clear that you can ignore kashrut if you are starving.

It’s possible some Germans tried to force Jews to eat pork to humiliate them, the way Americans served pork to Iraqis in Abu Ghraib but I am not even sure the Germans did that. [/quote]

This is getting off topic, but when I visited a small village in Spain, the tour guide claimed that there was a tradition of letting a pig run around the town and go into people’s houses. The ones that wouldn’t allow the pig in were identified as crypto-Jews. [/quote]

Never heard thatvm Jews have any rules about live pigs in their homes[/quote]

Well the Inquisition may not have been that accurate about Judaism.

Turns out I did not make up that memory though: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/statue-of-st-anthonys-pig[/quote]

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