We're both Jewish

[agingdem]

3. I am the child of Holocaust survivors..

I never knew my grandparents, aunts, uncles…they died in Auschwitz, Hitler’s victims…I am Jewish, ethnically and culturally, but I am not religious…my late husband was “half Jewish”…his mother was Baptist (she never converted)… my mother-in-law made the conscious decision to follow her husband’s faith and in doing so, she and her son were much “better Jews” than I will ever be…both my children married non-Jews..my five grandchildren were raised without a faith and yet they all identify as Jewish…my oldest granddaughter says it’s a DNA thing..my college age grandson, a member of a predominantly Jewish fraternity, is quick to anger when told he doesn’t “look” Jewish..his response: “I am a Jew and I have the bona-fides to prove it…I am the great great grandson of Auschwitz survivors so stfu asshole”!…