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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, it's just a calender with chocolate. While you're at it, get a big blue sock and fill it with toys. Can't hurt to put some lights on the house too, after all they're just lights. She might enjoy taking some pictures with Santa - NBD, it s just a guy in a red suit. That's cool.

[b]Just don't wonder why she has no interest in coming home for the Jewish holidays from college. Your daughter isnt a religious Jew, so you wont mind when your son in law handles the religious stuff.So mazel tov on your grand babies christening and confirmation! You'll have a wonderful time at your daughters home for Christmas. Merry Christmas to the whole mishpacha![/quote][/b]
 You are a bitter person.     [/quote]

NP. Maybe in tone, but she's just being realistic. The statistics bear it out. "Inter-faith" upbringing usually ends in assimilation. Intermarriage is something like 75% now and Orthodox Jews are the only sect of Judaism whose population is growing and not shrinking. [/quote]

An earlier pp suggested moving to Israel to avoid assimilation. My first reaction to this was that it was a rude thing to say. But perhaps it makes sense for those who truly do not want to assimilate to be in a place where there is no outside influence. [/quote]

I am the PP and that is not quite what I said. I said Jews wanting to avoid assimilation while living  a secular lifestyle might want to move to Israel OR NYC.  Both have outside influences (NYC certainly so!) , but both also have the critical mass of secular Jews to make maintaining secular Jewishness viable.  For one thing, in both places, even a young person who does not go out of their way to marry another Jew, stands a good chance of doing so anyway.  In the rest of the world, unless there is a positive commitment to in dating and in marriage, they will intermarry, by sheer odds.  And they will likely intermarry with someone with no particular interest in Jewishness, religious or secular.  Thats leaving aside the fact that there will be little in their own dayevorp to day lives making them more "culturally Jewish" in any meaningful sense.  
 As the Yiddish proverb had it "Mit honik ken men khapn mer flign vi mit esikr."  You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. [/quote]

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