re: Do you know any Jewish people?

From experience I can recommend hiring a good Jewish attorney for divorce representation.

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Believe Metarie is the second largest eruv is the world, or maybe just the US.

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RIP to my shabbos goy business idea

Of course I know one, I am one!
To answer your question, the 4th largest (as well as the oldest continuous) Jewish Community in the New World is in New Orleans. New York, Miami, and Los Angelos have more, but Uptown New Orleans has a very sizable Jewish population.

I am willing to answer any questions about Jewish culture as I came from a mixed faith marriage (father’s family was Catholics and Protestants, mother’s family Jewish).

A close friend of mine is Jewish, she and her family are the extent of my Jewish acquaintances. I attended her child’s Bar Mitzvah and her mother’s funeral. Was interesting to get a peek into their different cultural practices.

RE: holidays
She would never be offended if someone told her Merry Christmas and she wishes others (who are Christian) Merry Christmas. Likewise, I wish her a Happy Hanukkah or whatever Jewish holiday I knew she was celebrating.

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but I definitely used the “are you doing anything for Christmas” vs. “holidays”.

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Just to clarify, did you:
- type that wrong, or
- intentionally say Christmas instead of holidays or Hanukkah?

Scruffy’s wife and in-laws are Jewish.

So, yes.

I grew up uptown in the very Catholic New Orleans in the 70s. I knew more Jewish people than Protestants. Not kidding.

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maybe? I don't make a habit of asking folks about their religion

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It was pretty easy to tell in school when the dark haired dudes were eating matzo ball soup And it was Passover.

Yes, I have been to a Shabbat meal and 2 of my coworkers are Jewish and from the Northeast. Neither are kosher but I have learned a lot about some of the oddities in the more strict (Conservative & Hassidic) sects.

Married women wear wigs because only her husband can see her hair

Men and women sit across the aisle in temple and there is no mingling at events between them

Women must take a traditional bath after their period and wait seven days to have sex with their husbands (most fertile time?)

After sundown on Friday night, you cannot drive a car or "break" an electrical current. If a light is on, it must remain on until sundown on Saturday. That is the reason for the "Sabbath" setting on my oven. It keeps the meal warm, but can be on for the full ~24 hours.

Silver is actually very important to the families

Abortion is ok until about 40 days after conception

They act as almost independent communities. Legal matters are generally handled internally, including crimes such a sexual assault, child abuse, etc.

Once they enter in to a community, they tend to take over. My Jewish coworker described the Hassidics as locusts

A large majority of the Hassidic community is on government assistance. The woman works and the husband studies the Torah. And they usually have a large family.

They can't have a meal that has both meat & dairy

No shellfish or non-cloven hoofed animals can be eaten

When I went to the dinner, we drove through Monsey, NY and it was like seeing droves of Amish people walking around. Plain clothed women, the curls on the side of the men's face with Yakima's. These people were definitely not the Diamond District, Hollywood or Wall Street people society makes us think of.

Yes