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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are Christians (plain vanilla Protestants, not Evangelicals) and we attend church on a weekly basis.  We have many Jewish friends who are devout in observing Jewish Holy Days, yet they rarely go to Shabbat services otherwise (though they do, of course, attend many services in conjunction with Bar/Bat Mitzvahs).  Is this generally true of Jews or is it just the folks we know?

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Synagogue attendance is not an important facet of Jewish life.  The important/significant practices of Jewish observance take place in the home on a daily basis.[/quote]

As my father would say and I now repeat on a regular basis, being Jewish is a way of life.  [/quote]
How so other than hanging out with other people who are jewish? What exactly do you do that is so different from other people? Especially if you don't believe in god.[/quote]

I cannot speak for PPs father whom I did not know (I mean I assume I didn't, since he in anon)

But there a range of ways of expressing one's secular Jewish identity, ranging from reading classical Jewish religious texts purely for their ethical messages and literary value, to engaging Jewish music, Jewish foodways, etc to involvement with Israel.   Obviously gentiles can do many of those things too, but usually they are not expressing their identity in doing so.  In the past many saw certain ways of using language, of thinking, certain kinds of humor, as distinctively Jewish, but many of those are rooted in the Yiddish language and in having grown up around practicing Jews and so today are more confined to secular people who have broken away from orthodox backgrounds - at one time that was the majority of the Jewish community. [/quote]

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