Offended as a logical person.

[Linde]

Hey Linde, thanks for the website.  I read 5 or 6 articles.  I have to ask -Why secular as opposed to observant??


I was born an d raised in Germany, my mother was a survivor of the camps.  Judaism was eradicated from Germany by the time I was raised.  I grew up without any religion, just the bit my mom could get across to us kids.  I do not want to live with the restrictions Judaism requires of an observant Jew.
However, I am very proud to be Jewish, because we are resilient and tough people, who kept their identity for thousands of years living in diaspora in foreign and strange countries.  Close to 25% of my DNA is still DNA from the Levant even though my family lived for hundreds of years in Germany.  We simply stuck together.