I don't meet many Jews... Two quite different girls I HAVE met. One, at age 14, she one year older, scared to go home, asking me to come with her so she would have someone to confirm her story - she was not late because she was a "slut", but because there was a huge tram accident... I went. The father opened the door, took one good look at me, dragged her in, slammed the door in my face and beat her up. My mother had great affection for jewish culture, so when Edna told me that she was from a rigid jewish family, I though "well, so much the better, these people are highly educated, verbal and intelligent!" O-oh....
Later one of my colleagues introduced his new girlfriend - such a dark beauty that I couldn't help asking where she was from, originally, and suggested Yemen, or something. She laughed and said she was jewish, but all her family lived completely secular. And that one day, she was planning to have a look into it but at the moment she would not even know how to organize a fitting sabbath meal. Still, she seemed happy and proud of her heritage. I can so not relate to it all that I am fascinated. Christianity - where I would belong, culturally - gives me the creeps. And so I marvel at anyone that can feel "at home" with their own heritage. But I am beginnig to understand.... |
