Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxi.UUCP
Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxi!dsg
From: dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: The Tragedy of Assimilation
Message-ID: <391@mhuxi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 16:06:32 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxi.391
Posted: Mon Jan 13 16:06:32 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jan-86 20:46:31 EST
References: <3780118@csd2.UUCP> <1172@lll-crg.ARpA> <143@pedsgo.UUCP> <1182@lll-crg.ARpA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 12

> 
> You might think differently if you lived in such a household.  My mother
> would go through great lengths to get my father to eat on Yom Kippur and
> to eat bread during Pesach.  After a while, he succumbed.  Mom once hit
> me for completing an expletive of hers (she yelled "Jesus!" and I yelled
> "Christ!"  This isn't supposed to mean anything in a Jewish home.), and
> once scolded me for not knowing the words to "the Lord's Prayer" (if it
> hadn't been a pop song at the time, I wouldn't have known what she was
> talking about).
> --Lynn Gold

Lynn, you've just showed some of us part of the "tragedy of assimilation."