> > re: "culture" not religion - no matter, you be good people!
Thank you. > > re: Bat Mitzvah dissuasion - bummer it was slanted Well, I don't know that I really wanted one but it burned me that my mother dismissed my bat mitzvah as unneccesary when my brothers was required. Very sexist of her. > > re: feminist - how about we call ourselves "humanist" or does that have > other meanings? It probably does have other meanings but I like it. The problem with feminist is that people assume you are a man-hating. bulldyke (forgive me, I am not intending to be insensitive, its just what I have been told I must be if I am a feminist) if you call yourself feminist. Its really quite sad. > > re: "a jew" - I mis-spoke, meant to say that Orthodoxy in Israel doesn't > recognize Reform conversions or marriages, I've heard, which means as a > Reform I'm "less" of a Jew. Didn't mean it personally/individually, good > catch! BTW my mother and her maternal line were all "officially" Jewish > although my mother was only "culturally" not religiously. We talked about 4 > sects within Judaism - Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Gastronomic. > Gastronomic!! LOL, my mother always says you can tell the good chinese restaurants by the number of chinese and jews in them. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
