beautiful streamers, please open for me

I'm a born and raised catholic, and still practicing today, and I have jewish family! It's something that has always been a part of my identiy and something that I have always taken pride in. Its the reason i have the name i was given. Despite not being considered jewish myself, I have experienced antisemitism due to my jewish ancestry; my siblings and I were raised with the sobering reminder that in nazi germany, we also would have been considered undesireables. I'm proud to be the descendant of one of the most resilient groups to ever walk this earth.

from another post:

The reason I choose to mention it there is because I post a lot about israel, and it is something that does inform my opinions and affect my day to day life-- even in a positive way, for example I've found a wonderful community at hillel to learn more about Judaism (v important to me despite practicing another religion) and may have the opportunity to go in birthright soon because of it.

I do a lot of israel & jewish advocacy at my university, and part (although not all) of the reason I "care so much" is ultimately because of my ancestry. If there was a holocaust repeat, the best place for me to go and live a fulfilled, authentic life would be in israel. Growing up I went to the funerals of some of my immediate jewish relatives, and something that always stuck with me was just before the burial, pouring soil from the land of israel into their graves (I even have a post about it).