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dragonyphoenix ([personal profile] dragonyphoenix) wrote2015-10-03 10:25 pm
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Do the Rosenberg's keep kosher

We know that WIllow had to sneak over to Xander's to watch Christmas specials and that her Dad would have been less than thrilled to find crucifixes nailed to her wall. Do we think that season one WIllow follows the kosher food restrictions?

This actually is for a story.
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[identity profile] niki1988.livejournal.com 2015-10-04 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Dont all jewish people do kosher

[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com 2015-10-04 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I never saw any references to it and we do learn later that she eats in the cafeteria, so I would say probably not.

Oh! I also recall references to her eating dinner at Xander's house, which I think also puts the kibosh on kosher!Willow.


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[identity profile] baudown.livejournal.com 2015-10-04 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
There is no way she or her family kept kosher. Not a chance. I'm Jewish (non-practicing, but culturally) and I've lived in NYC all my life, surrounded by Jews. Growing up, I knew one family that kept kosher, and as an adult, I have one former co-worker who kept kosher. That's it. It isn't that common - I think the statistic is that around 13% of US Jews keep kosher.

[identity profile] punch-kicker15.livejournal.com 2015-10-04 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Wild-ass guess based on observing my Jewish friends' and relatives' dietary habits: I would say that Willow does not keep strictly kosher.

Keeping strictly kosher is really a pain in the ass, and something I associate with the stay-at-home mom who cooks every meal from scratch. Sheila's the kind of busy, distant mom whose family would subsist mostly on microwave dinners and/or takeout. (Yeah, theoretically Ira could do the cooking, but the vast majority of meal-prep seems to fall on the woman of the household).

I think there could be lingering hangups over some issues--my husband was raised Jewish, never came close to keeping strictly Kosher except when he lived in Israel as an infant (my MIL is a Sheila-type), but was a bit reticent about ordering pork. It wasn't that he was scared or grossed out by it, it just wasn't on his radar as something to order. But Asian BBQ in Seattle and Vancouver pretty much made that reticence disappear.
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