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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So people who speak  yiddish are culturally Jewish but people who observe the holiday cycles in their home are not?

There can be a discussion about what if anything it means to be culturally jewish but to define by the languages people spoke 100 years ago in the diaspora and not today seems bizarre. [/quote]

Any specifically Jewish language spoken today would do.  I mean I suppose there are Israeli born people living in the US who speak Hebrew at home.

But yeah, cultural Jews are ones whose lives are shaped by Jewish culture, as opposed to Jewish religion.

Someone who takes a few religious rituals, (and I mean few - I doubt the folks who "observe the holiday cycles" are doing anything for the minor fasts, the New Moon, or even shabbos) and honors them in a limited way (do they refrain from work on all the holidays where that is required?) and devoid of the religious meaning, is a religious Jews very LITE.

Cultural Jew means a different way of being Jewish than being religious - it does not mean the SAME way but much less. [/quote]

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