On 10 Jun 2003 at 13:02, Erik Reuter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 05:37:12PM +0100, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > You do not chose to be Jewish if your mother is. You are Jewish. > > But you are not automatically practicing the religion because of your > mother. Semantics. Not so hard to comprehend, really, if you are > thinking clearly.
Yep. Agree. However, as I said the religion part is only ONE part of it. There's also the Jews-as-a-people, Jew-as-a-culture and Jews-as-a- ideology (Zionism). You don't have to be religious to be Jewish. (unlike say Islam - there's no such thing as a non-practicing Muslem). Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
