....”So in a sense, you are abandoning nothing. Because you cannot abandon what you never had in the first place.
And what Jews like Roth never had is basic Jewish literacy..”
Sounds like a lot of other progressive groupies. We now officially have JINO’s; Jews in Name Only. Apparently these Jews do not associate the ancient texts of their forefathers - the Talmud (i.e. the old Testament to Christians) as having any consequence to their very being. Just more road kill along the progressive highway. JINO’s can join the CINO’s as folks who identify as being part of a group, but are not even aware or care about what that designation means. Their relationship to their Creator is fractured.
Many of today’s ethnic Jews are either agnostics or have no faith whatsoever.