To: I am a Christian. But have Jewish ancestry . I am scared to tell anyone. I am a little ashamed because I feel most society hates Jewish people .
Me: Me too. My mother was Jewish and my father Christian – they eloped to Gretna Green when my father was 13 and my mother 18, during WW2 and were married before anyone from either of their families could stop them.
I was born in 1947 and I have been brought up as a Christian, I only discovered my ancestry, when I was 11 or 12, when my mother told me what hers was and what that made me, just like you.
It is best to keep the Jewish side of things a personal secret and don’t share it with anyone, I have found.
I was brought up a Christian, but my mothers ancestry makes me an automatic male Jew, though neither religion accepts me fully, I am either too much, one thing, or the other and fit nowhere – a white black man sort of thing – so I don’t believe in any and that makes it a lot easier to handle religious issues.
I have the nose of a Jew and I have been circumcised at birth, so it would be impossible to conceal my background, if it came to a strip down, I expect – but that has never happened and given my country of origin, now, that won’t ever happen anyway.
I am not proud of my Jewish ancestry, any more than I am of my Christian ancestry – I am me and that is all that matters to me and I dare to think outside the box and be different and that has served me well, my whole life, so far.
Good Luck to you and yours and take care – politics and religion are fickle things and both can turn in a moment – why put yourself there.