My relationship to the religion I was raised in is somewhat mixed, while also being mostly totally angst free on my side. For those who don’t know, I was raised Jewish, in a heavily Jewish community (well compared to most of the rest of the country), went to temple fairly regularly, and went to sunday school till I confirmed. I never really went to hewbrew school and I did not bat mitzvah. As an adult I have mostly vacillated between paganism and well – being lazy. But one piece of my Jewish heritage I cannot leave behind is Passover. For this holiday, [...]
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Mar 302010
Apr 062004
I love my family, I love my family …. repeat ad nauseum …. *religious rant on 5 minutes in last night, I gave up trying to have a religious/spiritual connection to what was going on, adjusted my thinking to family dinner with some weird pre-food conversation and my psyche was much better. I hope that tonight is better – I am not having high hopes. I know that this is part of what drove me away from judaism … not so much the religion at the beginning, but the way the community around me practiced it. I grew up in a [...]
