>>>Well, that's certainly a case of different experience. I don't know any Jews who celebrate Christmas unless they're in intermarried families.
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>>>That's a good point - I know several Jewish people who celebrate Christmas, and all are in families where one person is Jewish, the other person is something else.
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>>> As for your wife's family, it's hard to characterize them as Conservative Jews (note the capital "C") if Yom Kippur is just another day for them. Culturally Jewish, sure, but Conservative Jews at least fast on Yom Kippur (if they're physically able).
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>>>True. My wife's mother was raised Conservative (her parents were mixed, the mother was Jewish and the father Catholic), though she herself (and my wife) are more Culturally Jewish. Our occasional dinnertime discussions on religion and culture are....interesting.
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>>I hope you don't take this in offensive way. But - to most Jews - your daughter is Jewish. That is, the Jewish or not-Jewish is defined by mother. Even if through 5 generations the father was non-Jewish (the father is simply a sperm donor <g>). And I am not talking about Jewish as being religious because being a Jew has very little to do with practicing Judaism or being religious. As you know, the Jews are the chosen people. Why and for what is another question that nobody understands <g>.
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>Thats right.My children are regarded as Jewish as my wife is Jewish. Wwhether they think of themselves as Jewish is up to them

I have had several friends who are of “mixed” marriages and I found that those who have Jewish mother and Christian father are very “comfortable” (I can’t think of a better term) with themselves and have no stigma. They – these children – are well accepted by Jewish community because their mother is Jewish. And they are well accepted by Christian community because for Christians the religion of a child is defined by the father. My wife’s best friend from collage, a Jewish woman, is married to an Iranian Muslim (a very good guy with who we have been friends for over 30 years). Their kids (again for the same reason as kids of Jews and Christians) are very comfortable and accepted.