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Originally Posted by divine1966
Could be. Still rude. I’d think someone would say something. Probably just ignorance. Two funerals ten years apart and they wouldn’t look up or ask someone that they can’t exclude brother’s wife from funerals.
People already have all kind of uneducated ideas about Jews and Jewish customs. I’d not want people to think that Jews have these kind of customs about excluding close family. We have enough nonsense believed about us
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I agree. And it can happen with any religion.At the moment I am dealing with another one of my brothers who has become overtly (rather crazily) religious in our family-of-origin religion. Also, he's making things up. So I would say, yes, he is kind of an embarrassment for the rest of us. He is putting forth stuff that isn't really part of the religion. So yes, this does happen. I haven't confronted him because it won't change him.
If I was still married I guess I would have found out what was going on about the funerals. I did see my ex's brother and sister-in-law at my son's graduation and they were very cordial towards me. So I really don't think it was personal. I never felt anything personally negative from them.