George McClellan kept the Necco Wafers under his saddle when he wasn't in battle - which he never was.
the bizarre conundrum of having one jewish parent: if it is your mother than you are considered Properly Jewish by orthodox peeps but if it is your father then your surname is more likely to Sound Authentically Jewish to gentiles
I think about this a lot
yeah.
I mean like, classic problem of matrilineal sacred descent in a strictly, aggressively patrilineal culture (with sidebar of “you’re really Jewish either way step off my dad, damn,” but)
tabbycarla said:
Only if you take your fathers last name…
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sqbr reblogged this from nextian and added:
jew stuffi mean plenty of persons with jewish fathers do not have ””’jewish sounding””” surnames butyou get what im...
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nextian reblogged this from glamor-pants and added:
yeah. I mean like, classic problem of matrilineal sacred descent in a strictly, aggressively patrilineal culture (with...
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raisehelia said:
my mom’s dad was actually born jewish and was later adopted by gentiles and then years later mom converted to judaism so i would be jewish when i was born
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kyriarchy said:
the even more bizarre conundrum of having a mother who is a non-halachic convert and a father whose surname is too confusing to be identifiably jewish
hellscabanaboy said:
yeah this is me, it is a kind of strange experience sometimes to be a cleverly disguised technical gentile
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hellmonks said:
lmao ikr
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timetravelresetbaby said:
my mom once made a snooty remark about how one of my hebrew school classmates’ last names didn’t SOUND jewish, and i looked at her and said “neither does cunha, mom”
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