Originally Posted by 2HousePlague

I don't think so.

And I'm not thinking of "changing" anything in myself in response to my affinity for any group.

This is about having RECOGNIZED myself in Jews.

My thoughts about Judaism go deeper than just "getting along" and "feeling at home".

There are things in me that I could never account for when I was a kid. I NEVER fit in, there seemed to be no cause-and-effect relationship between what I was and the people and circumstances that had made me.

I don't know how "Jewish" my dad feels. I've never asked him. But, I'm going to speculate that, for being an immigrant to the US and a very ambitious self-made man, he probably never had the time or luxury to wonder about ORIGINS.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to step back from the pressing urgencies of survival, enough to wonder. I've been wondering for a long time.

The only way I COULD BE Jewish (in any degree) is if some amount of GENETIC JUDAISM (which carried with it both the behavioral earmarks of a Jew and a discernment/affinity for the Jewishness of others) is present in me, by way of my Jewish grandfather.

The basic question I'm articulating here is: IS THAT POSSIBLE?


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