As far as I know, I am JEWISH and have no religion
so you must be wrong.

you can't pass a religion via the blood of the mother.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Howie Hamlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: Caucasian Jews


> AFAIK, begin Jewish is not a race, it's a religion.  I thought that
Israelis were semites, which is a race.
>
> Regards,
>
> Howie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beth F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Caucasian Jews
>
>
> >
> > The simple answer:
> > If your mother is jewish, then you are jewish, like it or not.
> > If you convert to judaism, you are also jewish.
> >
> > To me its slightly different - I make a distinction between the race of
> > people jews and the religion jewish.  I, judith, michael, ben are all of
the
> > jewish race.  Michael, Judith and Ben are all of the jewish religion as
well
> > (although they practice very differently).  I have no religion.  To me,
you
> > cannot convert to the jewish race, just the religion.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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