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Aug 28th, 2005 at 11:53 am by Susie

As a shiska who married a Jew, all I can say is, “Oy vey.” (Or, as I once said to my (now-deceased former) mother-in-law, “If you wanted Jewish grandchildren, you should have raised Jewish children.”)

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on 28 Aug 2005 at 3:02 pm1Izquierdo

Religion, what’s it good for?
on 28 Aug 2005 at 4:19 pm2Yehudit

Very true statement to the mother-in-law, although very snotty. Sorry you don’t have a good relationship with her. So your husband is very ambivalent about being a Jew. So as a Jewish woman I want to marry a jewish man who appreciates his heritage and culture and wants to share it with a spirited soulful Jewish woman. That can include a woman who converts because, like Naomi, she is drawn to the Jewish people. I know many women like this and as far as I am concerned, they are Jewish.
on 28 Aug 2005 at 4:32 pm3G Newman

These critics reflect an era of increasing intolerance.

I wonder if those of us who intermarried will end up like those Serbs who married Croats or Bosnian Muslims back in the old Yugoslavia… officially, socially, “non-persons”, once the inter-ethnic war started.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

My life is mine. I don’t owe 23 chromosomes to the reproduction of any heritage that I was accidentally born into.

The bigots can go fuck themselves.
on 28 Aug 2005 at 5:40 pm4Philip

“Shiksa” is not a term of endearment, despite the beautiful smile of the person who calls you one.
on 28 Aug 2005 at 6:40 pm5Susie

Who said it was a term of endearment?
on 28 Aug 2005 at 9:30 pm6Philip

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to imply “shiksa” was a term of endearment. I was being a bit facetious, if not sarcastic. So many people use the word “shiksa” without really knowing its roots (or perhaps they do). In pre-”enlightened” America, it would be equivalent to a white person calling a black person a “nigger,” although, to the black person, I’m pretty sure they realized that word was a slur.

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