Would you happen to know of a list of things to do or people to ask about writing jewish characters? My dad's side of the family is jewish, and I want to write something for the may 5th thing, but he didn't pass any cultural stuff down so I don't know wher

Sorry, anon - this came in after I went to bed last night. And I’m not going to be able to answer this with anything immediately helpful, because there isn’t a plug-and-play list out there.

The very, very first step is going to be de-centering the western“Judeo-Christian” culture as anything but Christian. We are not Christians-minus-Christ, (though that’s a really popular misconception). We think differently, have a different worldview, all that jazz. The mind/body substance duality means not...