First Things RSS Feed - Stephen Miller https://www.firstthings.com/author/stephen-miller en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:23 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/stephen-miller 60 Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/02/confessions-of-a-rootless-cosmopolitan-jew https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/02/confessions-of-a-rootless-cosmopolitan-jew Sat, 01 Feb 1992 00:00:00 -0500 I, the grandson of devout Orthodox Jews, am watching my younger daughter being confirmed in the Lutheran Church. The minister, an affable, athletic-looking man, has his hands on my daughter’s head as he says a prayer. Afterwards, my wife takes a group picture of the smiling minister with the confirmed kids. I stand in the background—an outsider, mildly uncomfortable, looking forward to leaving this alien realm and returning to my usual Sunday morning activity: reading the New York Times . I am what so many Jewish leaders worry about—a non-Jewish Jew whose children, by virtue of my marriage to a gentile, are being raised as Christians.

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