Lost souls

Poignant wail of a ‘Jew who changed his mind.’

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And a recommended book that follows up on the impact felt by the off-spring of most confused Jewish parents.

As Karl Shapiro wrote in the introduction to Poems of a Jew:

No one has been able to define Jew, and in essence this defiance of definition is the central meaning of Jewish consciousness. For to be a Jew is to be in a certain state of consciousness which is inescapable. As everyone knows, a Jew who becomes an atheist remains a Jew. A Jew who becomes a Catholic remains a Jew. Being a Jew is the consciousness of being a Jew, and the Jewish identity, with or without religion, with or without history, is the significant fact.