A few weeks ago in Jewish history class, we were talking about interfaith marriages and how they play a role in our society. My mom is Christian and my dad is Jewish, so if we are going by technicalities, no orthodox person would consider me Jewish. To me, this is so frustrating. I don't think that just because my mom isn't Jewish, that it means that I am not. I was raised Jewish and I am extreermely active in the Jewish community. While my mom never converted to Judaism, she attends services with us all the time and is very active in our Jewish lives. She knows all of the prayers in Hebrew and even made it a point to learn how to read Hebrew a few years ago. This is relevant to what we are doing now because we have just started our unit on Christianity and I realized that I really don't know anything about that religion that my mom was raised by. I think that this in a way is unfair of me, that I never really asked her that much or took the time to learn what moral values she was raised on. Instead, she adopted our culture. I really like that EIE is exposing us to the other religions as well and teaching us their involvement and attachment to Israel.
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