(August 23, 2015 at 3:46 am)Kaninchen Wrote: For outsiders, it might be best thought of as an extremely long-running courtroom drama - sort of annoyingly compelling.
Both my grandfathers have been jewish. But, at least the one that didn't die before I was born, wasn't religious in any way, shape or form. The only tradition he helt up were the obliogatory pieces of matza at the Easter table and a few jiddish words he used to call me by when I was little. Lifelong socialist although he was a rather successful tailor and came from a family of merchants. I doubt the other one was more religious, since he's known to have gambled away his fortune at the tables of Abazia and Monacco during the 20ies and 30ies. And both married christian women, one of them even divorced before. So, they obviously weren't traditionalists.
So, truth to tell, I don't know shit about judaism although, technically, I'm half jewish.