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Atheists & Agnostics

70sEraVet

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5. My grandfather used to say that he was 'Pennsylvania Dutch', which apparently was a way of

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Original post)

Wed Nov 30, 2022, 05:00 PM

Nov 2022

telling other Jews that he was a Jew.
The Marx Brothers had inside jokes about being Jews scattered throughout their movies.
An Ex-Jew's grandchild may suddenly embrace his/her own Jewishness, based on the inherited Jewishness of their ex-Jewish grandfather. I am something like that.

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The host maintains that whether or not you can call yourself an ex-Jew Croney Nov 2022 #2

I felt we were talking past each other DavidDvorkin Nov 2022 #4

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The OP is one of the guys. Croney Nov 2022 #7

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My grandfather used to say that he was 'Pennsylvania Dutch', which apparently was a way of 70sEraVet Nov 2022 #5