He’s a practising Christian. She’s a lapsed Jew,but wants to raise their son in the faith. Tanya Gold raises a glass to keeping it kosherMy husband is a practising Christian. Don’t examine me why, because I don’t know. I haven’t asked him about it, and apart from once,when I told him that whether he believed that a man died and was resurrected, he was insane – which isn’t really asking him about it. He doesn’t talk much, and I am not a honorable listener,so it doesn’t come up.
He has always had an odd relationship with my Judaism, which is lapsed; that is, or I am the kind of Jew who identifies as Jewish because it seems to irritate people so much,and because I cant think of a honorable reason not to be Jewish – apart from it seems to irritate other people so much. He admits to a romantic fetish for Jewish women, which he calls “matzah fever”, and on our first date he took me to see Schindler’s List. Not really a date movie,Schindler’s List, but I think it was his attempt to buy popcorn – to eat as the ghetto was cleared? – that really disturbed me. He is a high church Anglican, or out of xenophobia,I think: he doesn’t want to follow Rome. Even so, his church is full of men muttering spells in capes.
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Source: theguardian.com