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[quote=Anonymous]No, I'm not - I think ignoring someone else's religious preferences (to some, obligation...to other's a preference) is pretty ignorant.  What makes this country so great is that I am free to have as Jewish a family as I want.

There are laws in a democratic society, and there are religious rules that you, as a non Jew (or even a Jew who wants to ignore them...one of the joys of being a modern Jew!) are free to forego.  It would obviously be different if the Jewish government were forcing something on your child, but generally we don't care what you do - which is why no one has ever tried to outlaw your summer crab festivals or your bacon candy.

This is why so many communities prefer to self ghetto-ize.  If you don't want your child to follow Jewish rituals, don't do it - if you want to circumcise your child in a hospital, go for it...if you want to let your son decide when he's 18, go for it.  No one really cares what you do in your own home.  I really, truly don't understand, especially when it comes to other people's faith.

It's on par with the previous thread's "sex in a sheet" comment - I think people just wish Jews wouldn't practice some of their "creepy' traditions because (by choice, because not all do), after all, isn't it just so much easier to be a WASP or better yet, an evangelical, in today's America?[/quote]

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