Atheists & Agnostics

DavidDvorkin

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16. Assimilation wasn't high in Eastern Europe

Fri Sep 18, 2015, 09:00 AM

Sep 2015

Needless to say.

My mother grew up in a Lithuanian shtetl. She left in time, as did some of her siblings, but her mother and the rest of her family died in the Holocaust. They certainly never considered themselves Lithuanians. She sometimes called herself a Litvak, but the way she and others like her used the word, it meant a Lithuanian Jew, as distinguished from Jews from elsewhere, not a Lithuanian.

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Once a Jew, always a Jew? [View all] DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 OP

I dunno. SusanCalvin Sep 2015 #1

We're Jewish enough to go to the ovens. needledriver Sep 2015 #2

When my folks first moved to NC Warpy Sep 2015 #3

That's discussed in the book. DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #4

My dear friend Ira is an atheist Duppers Sep 2015 #5

If the mother that gives birth to you is Jewish mountain grammy Sep 2015 #6

Why does that make me Jewish? DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #14

Of course it doesn't mountain grammy Sep 2015 #15

Assimilation wasn't high in Eastern Europe DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #16

Lordy.... that Jewish thing again. AlbertCat Sep 2015 #7

I have red hair DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #8

Dawkins has called himself a 'Cultural Christian'. progressoid Sep 2015 #9

I know DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #10

Sure, but he's not alone. progressoid Sep 2015 #11

Hm, I would check atheist Rainforestgoddess Sep 2015 #12

In this sense that I am of Irish - Jewish heritage. Warren Stupidity Sep 2015 #13

I am an atheist and a Jew edhopper Sep 2015 #17

I have divested myself of it DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #18

That is your choice edhopper Sep 2015 #19

Yes DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #21

Nazi ovens edhopper Sep 2015 #22

A remarkably common and utterly silly response. DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #23

Thank you for the oh so condescending remark edhopper Sep 2015 #24

That the response is remarkably common is a simple factual observation DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #25

Only when they say their opinion is the only right one edhopper Sep 2015 #26

What makes you assume that I have never experienced anti-semitism? DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #27

You have far more patience than I do. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #28

My patience did run out. edhopper Sep 2015 #29

I wouldn't have lasted half as long. beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #30

I should have said, I left it behind. DavidDvorkin Sep 2015 #20