On Jun 30, 7:35 pm, flav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On 30-Jun-2008, Martin Ambuhl <mamb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > dshar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > > On Jun 28, 10:29 am, Bug-Eyed Churl <theda...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >> There must be a way to _define_ "Jew" besides "you're Jewish if you
> > >> say you are."
>
> > > Look it up.
>
> > > Who is a Jew?
> > > A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has
gone
> > > through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.
> > >www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm
>
> > Look it up yourself. The Jewish Scriptures are patrilineal.
>
> In terms of tribal lineage, yes.
>
> > There the
> > identity of the father determines that of the child.
>
> In terms of tribal lineage, yes.
>
> > All sorts of great
> > "Jewish" heroes there have non-Jewish mothers without even a whiff of
> > "conversion".
>
> Like WHO?
....
I'm hoping for an answer to this one. I can think of the patriarchs,
before there was a Jewish people for them to find wives in, but that's
only one sort.
--
Jerry Friedman
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