I can transliterate Hebrew letters, and I took two semesters' worth of the language in college, but only about five words of actual understanding have stuck to the present day.
The other thing that jarred me was the bit where one of Pat's kids asks their dad if him being Jewish makes them Jewish (after, if I remember right, he's expressed a wish to be buried in a Jewish cemetary), and his response is basically 'nope! your mother isn't Jewish which means there is nothing Jewish about you! never think about it again!' and they all laugh and do, in fact, never think about it again. Which, I mean, is technically accurate, but TO ME FELT WEIRD.
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I can transliterate Hebrew letters, and I took two semesters' worth of the language in college, but only about five words of actual understanding have stuck to the present day.
The other thing that jarred me was the bit where one of Pat's kids asks their dad if him being Jewish makes them Jewish (after, if I remember right, he's expressed a wish to be buried in a Jewish cemetary), and his response is basically 'nope! your mother isn't Jewish which means there is nothing Jewish about you! never think about it again!' and they all laugh and do, in fact, never think about it again. Which, I mean, is technically accurate, but TO ME FELT WEIRD.