I celebrate Hanukkah lightly -- which today, at my in-laws, involved a tinfoil-and-birthday-candle menorah š. I also have complicated feelings about being Jewish in the specific, not-enough ways that I am: a Jewish grandmother from New York who assimilated, married a catholic, and denounced religion entirely but served gefilte fish at pā¦
I celebrate Hanukkah lightly -- which today, at my in-laws, involved a tinfoil-and-birthday-candle menorah š. I also have complicated feelings about being Jewish in the specific, not-enough ways that I am: a Jewish grandmother from New York who assimilated, married a catholic, and denounced religion entirely but served gefilte fish at parties and so many cultural signifiers that carried down to me. Now I light Shabbat candles on the occasional Friday night I can tell my atheist mom is worried Iām becoming religious (hah) but I just want to stay connected to this culture that is somehow part of me.
Thanks for sharing about your Jewish identity. Chag sameach and happy solstice āØ
I celebrate Hanukkah lightly -- which today, at my in-laws, involved a tinfoil-and-birthday-candle menorah š. I also have complicated feelings about being Jewish in the specific, not-enough ways that I am: a Jewish grandmother from New York who assimilated, married a catholic, and denounced religion entirely but served gefilte fish at parties and so many cultural signifiers that carried down to me. Now I light Shabbat candles on the occasional Friday night I can tell my atheist mom is worried Iām becoming religious (hah) but I just want to stay connected to this culture that is somehow part of me.
Thanks for sharing about your Jewish identity. Chag sameach and happy solstice āØ