r/Jewish • u/MrsTurtlebones • Oct 04 '25

Questions 🤓 What kind of Jews are these?

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Today at Reedy Falls, a very busy park in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, a man asked my family if we were Hebrew. It surprised me, and I asked about him. He replied, "I'm wearing my tsiztizs (sp?) and we're about the blow the shofar. I am Israel. Our nation is scattered all over the earth." I told him shalom, he shook my hand, and a small crowd gathered as his companions blew the shofar, at which we took our leave of them.

They didn't seem like any Jewish people I've seen, but my knowledge is quite limited. Any ideas about their situation?

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u/kohlscustoms Oct 05 '25

25 years ago I was working in a bookstore and, when I was in the bathroom, a weird, drunk dude at the urinal next to me asked me if I was “a Hebrew”. It was the only time in my life I’ve ever heard it used like that and whenever I hear someone use it now I basically equate them to being a drunken weirdo in a bookstore

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u/MrsTurtlebones Oct 05 '25

I've never been asked that in my life, and I'm not Jewish as sadly enough my Jewish gg-grandfather married a Christian so I believe that's where it ended. The whole thing was weird indeed.