On a lighter note, there’s an old joke about Yankel who totally abandoned Yiddishkeit. He moved to a completely goyish neighborhood, had only goyish friends, had no connections to Judaism at all.
After living like that for many, many years, one day at a nearby mall Yankel (now known as Jack) bumps into his old friend Moshe from the old neighborhood.
Moshe is shocked by his friend’s life style.
“You mean to tell me you have nothing Jewish left in your life at all?!?” asks Moshe.
“To be totally honest” replies Yankel, “There are only two things left to my Jewish identity that I can’t seem to shake off”.
“Nu?” asks Moshe.
Yankel responds “Well, truth be told, I still love kneidlach, and… I’m still afraid of dogs!”