>For me being Jewish is a biographical detail. It does not define me as a person, it is not who am. I enjoy Jewish humour as much as anyone and embrace my fathe

>For me being Jewish is a biographical detail. It does not define me as a person, it is not who am. I enjoy Jewish humour as much as anyone and embrace my father's painful experiences during WWII, but it cannot mean that I'm better or more important than someone who's not a jew. Well, that's what being Jewish -- in a modern sense -- sounds like to me. The parts that you embrace are what define being Jewish as an ethnic identity. At least that's how I think of myself, being jewish-like-Feynman, not jewish-like-whoever-goes-to-synagogues. But again, I don't know what you are revolting against; nobody in my family has been religious since 1917 (my great-grandmother used to tell me she was brought up a "Pioneer"[1] in a figurative sense) - and I only had to part with my adenoids as a kid. [1]In the sense of Lenin's Pioneers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pioneer_Organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin_All-Union_Pione...