--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "larry.potter" > <larry.potter@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > b. It's [Israel] the only place Jews can call home. > > > > > > Other than the various countries they are citizens of, you mean? > > > > A good point. Can you point to any other religion on > > the planet that has a nation specifically reserved > > as (or even considered as) "home" to members of that > > religion? > > Not sure, but some Native American tribal religions > might qualify, at least in terms of certain regions > of what became the United States. It may be true > of some African tribal religions as well, perhaps > others here and there. > > The thing is that Jews are historically a *tribe*, > rather than just a group of folks who believe in > the same religion (and the tribe includes secular > Jews). Tribes do tend to have homelands. >
Historically they were 12 tribes, but can anyone today identify which tribe their family might belong to? Amd Palestinian Arabs might well be more genetically Jewish than the Europeans, who were often converts, rather than inheriting from an unbroken matrilineal tradition. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
