So, for the most part, I have been trying to keep as Kosher as possible by not mixing meat and milk, only eating Kosher food at home, not eating in restaurants that aren’t Kosher (except for Dinastia China, sniffle, on occassion) and I do not keep Kosher at the homes of my friends who are being kind enough to feed me when the contents of my fridge are practically non-existent. Since, I burned out a little with all the classes, I’ve been trying to slow down a little bit but I do not eat pork, which is easy because I never really have because I think it tastes vile and my mother thought it was the devil’s meat. Ha.
Recently, my “keeping Kosher” came under attack as I was afraid it would on Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, I went over to my friend Edwina’s house, who basically told me to “do whatever made me comfortable.” I was going to eat non-Kosher turkey but maybe not mix meat and milk or drop the whole Kosher thing for a night. Honestly, I try to keep Kosher around my friends who are not Jewish more than anything because I am afraid of the questions and possible attacks that will come later, But you weren’t THAT Kosher before?!
I didn’t encounter problems until my sister was privy to a conversation about how “stupid” my attempts to keep as Kosher as possible seem to others. Not to mention how stupid the blessing for the bathroom can be. Or how deeply sad it is that I can’t wear pants. I don’t understand why people think it is ever “kosher” to make comments like these in my presence.
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 
Ask your sister why she makes those comments. Maybe she doesn’t understand the affect of her comments on you.
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Actually, my sister wasn’t the one making the comments, she was just sitting around listening to the comments being made in disbelief.
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People need to grow up. They need to learn to be more open minded and understand that there are more ways then one for people to become closer to God. As ive told u before im all for u being jewish it fits u and makes u happy and comfotable and thats all that should matter to ur friends and if they cant see that then they need to look in to themsaelves and ask themselves if their being good friends by treating u that way.
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I foresee me sisters starting Wiccans for Jews, a support group for Wiccan sisters defending their converting sisters.
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I don’t know what to say. I just like seeing that I put some form of comment up.Here’s something: Will you be my Chiquita Banana? It’s the only Spanish I can come up with right now. 🙂
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I never consider that to be too major, probably because my mom tends to say “oh that’s stupid” as her default whenever I mention things about Judaism like not calling on Fridays, only eating kosher, not wanting a non-kosher keeping roommate, shomer nigia or getting a drop of blood taken out of a rather sensitive spot right before the conversion is finished. Sometimes she varies it with “why are you joining a cult?”The rest of the family is usually respectful, maybe too much, although when I was at Uncle Sonny’s birthday party certain relatives found it a bit odd that I was wearing the yarmulke around and reading a book entitled <>Porno<> (Irvine Welsh’s sequel to Trainspotting)
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Here’s an interesting thought…If your mom thought that pork was the devil’s meat, is it possible that her fmaily descended from Spanish conversos/cryptoJews? Maybe you’ve been Jewish all along? 🙂
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Wouldn’t that be a lovely irony? Someday, I hope I can afford to do my family history and really prove that theory or disprove. Meanwhile, the growing change in identification is startling. I see Jews everywhere and there’s an instant connection, I see Hispanics and I feel farther away. I discuss Israel and my heart breaks.
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Yeah – that’s one of the warnings that they never mention to new converts – forget about family relations and wearing a kipa and not getting to marry Nicole Kidman – do you really want to read about Israel and get very very angry?
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Angry or depressed? Tough call.
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Some American Jews see therapists when things go wrong in Israel. I find that I have to shut the television off and not read certain articles in the newspaper in order to keep myself from combusting from pure anger and frustration. Getting sad seems like a slightly healthier reaction.
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