Reply To: What if you weren't Jewish?

I have, lo aleichem, relatives that are jewishly aware, but woefully ignorant and as secular and disconnected as gentiles. When they speak to us of their kids’ achievements, their cultural and social involvements, we smile and nod, and feign interest, but inside we are flabbergasted by the hollowness of their lives. I could not conceive finding out that I wasn’t who I was, and not seeking a path back to that fulfilling, meaningful existence. And I am fairly certain that I am 1/35184372088832 Khazari, descended from geirim.