If someone has a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father, can he consider himself Jewish? 

What’s cohen?

As a Christian I accept you. There, you are not alone anymore

most jews in America accept you with a conservative conversion. So you marry a Jewish woman and the problem is solved for your kids

It's the same for me. My dad is Jewish but my mom is not. I still identify more with the Jewish side of my family than the non Jewish one. Perhaps because those are the traditions I was raised with.

so marry a Jewish womenan and raised your kids jewish, there are plenty of them looking for husbands on the market.@@Gladissims

@jeff I have a question My Dad is a muslim arab, my mom a secular jew. I am Muslim and according to Judaism, you are a Jew if your mother is a Jew ... Sooo can I say I'm a Muslim Jew?And can I become a religiously jew without an exhausting and long conversion as converted jews have to do only because my mom is Jewish and although I belong to Islam yet? Is this so true? And are according the Torah ethnic jews with no religion/christianity/Islam as their religion also jew? I mean their mother is Jewish, but their religion isn't Judaism but Islam or christianity... so are they real jews?

@@Ali-ob7kf, you ask very good questions. You are indeed Jewish. & yes, ethnic Jews with no religion are still Jewish because maternal biology rather than one's beliefs are what determines Jewishness. I suggest you speak with an Orthodox Rabbi and tell him your situation. Good luck :-)

Rabbinic manipulation

@Nir Hakimian where did you get this idea that I am deciding, is that your ambition actually? If somthing is not in Tanakh or contra Tanakh, it is Rabbinic manipulation. Answer me this according to Rabbins and mother Jewis thing the line of Babilonian Kings should be Jewish because of Estera, also according to Rabbis King David is not Jewish, because his grandgrandmother was a paganic, non Jewish, plus she was a prostitute (Rahab), then his grandmother was Ruth, also non Jewish. I think you are a crude man, for whom pure logic does not work. So answer me this, how come King David is Jewish? And how come Babilonian are not Jewish? God him self concider Jewish those with Non Jewish mother, but Rabbins don't, who here has created deviant religion? N

Rabiis changed the religion ..this is why God sent the last holy book (the Quran) to correct the message of the prophets that has been changed by time.

Anyone can feel alienated or discriminated in society, this is why feelings don't matter, facts do.

First name Surname ya not really.

My dad is Jewish, and my mom isn't. I've been alienated by both communities since I was born.

wenbiafra there is no discrimination of the Chinese in Birobidzhan

@@susanforeman8168 Me too!

I knew a gentlemen who considered himself a jew and practised judaism although his mother was an atheist non-jew and his father was a holocaust survivor (entire family killed in auschwitz). and everybody else considered him a jew there was no question about it. when he died he had a jewish funeral and was buried in jewish cemetery. All muslims, christians, atheists, communists considered him a jew because of his jewish father and jewish surname. It was very logical to us, non-jews that he was a jew. But according to rabbinical law he was not jewish. It is just does not make sense at all.

*it does not make sense at all

It's not some stupid outdated law any more than it is some stupid outdated law that a cat is not a dog. So who cares what a stupid outdated law that says a cat is not a dog, right? Btw... just so that you know, you don't actually have a legal father. In fact if you were to convert to Judaism, by law he would be allowed to marry you since you aren't actually his daughter. (though the Rabbis did prohibit such a marriage, but not because you are his daughter)

Monica Susanna what’s your father?

Yes, because you always know who the mother is, you don't always know who the father is. But to really be Jewish is to follow halakah, the Jewish law. And that is what it says. If you live by the 613 law of Judaism you can convert.

what exactely is a jewish atheist?

@@gioq4702 belonging to the jews as a people but not believing in the religion Judaism.

@@juliushartman3935 as a people how? not the language, not the nation. what else?

@@gioq4702 corey is a very secular jew

@@gioq4702 he feels that he belongs to the jewish people but he doesn’t believe in the jewish god.

+Ron Hahn I never knew what a Karaite was but I had wondered if there were many non-Talmudist Jews. (The Talmudists are just, well......I'll just keep it at that). I think I may like these Karaites.

Ron Hahn, you are mistaken. There was no halachik rule created. The Torah is the one that teaches that a Jew is a Jew based on the mother.

me me Actually it wasn’t set in stone the verse in Torah inspired a change in the rules.

@@PC-lu3zf, sorry for not getting back to you. You tube didn't inform me that you had responded to my comment. I happened to be scrolling through this thread and saw your response. You state "Actually it wasn’t set in stone the verse in Torah inspired a change in the rules." My response, I don't understand what you mean. The Torah is what provides the rules to begin with. So how can the Torah inspire anything? As to how conversion to Judaism worked prior the giving of the Torah, this is not really relevant for us.

me me Throughout Torah only examples of paternal lines are given. That’s why Karaite Jews consider this the appropriate family line, or if someone converts by following the G-d of Israel, being circumcised and aligning themselves with Israel and other Jews. That’s how the view conversion. So why do you say it’s in the Torah? Where does Torah say this?

My mum is Scottish Presbyterian and my dad is Latvian Jewish

@@AliceAndZoeAreTwins My father was jew and my mother christian.

My dad's dads' side was Irish, his mothers' side has a lot of Jewish ancestry. My Mother is Scots-Irish with some Jewish ancestry as well. I totally get how you feel. Oddly enough Lumsden is one of my Moms grandparents names!

@@yaheladom2440 You mean Judaism Jewish is a ethnic background not a religion

@@Hi-xu9xn Religion means" again together "or" come back to Elohim "Depends.. Religion is latin word.

+Joseph Anton; Actually you are incorrect. You certainly are given citizenship if your father is Jewish and mother is not Jewish . You dont know what you are talking about

The 1950's Law of Return allows close non-Jewish family members to acquire Israeli citizenship, but that does not make them Jews.

Golden Glider jesus, true jew, from line of judah, said it is blasphemy to say u r a jew when u r not.

Golden Glider, it is about facts. If it was about what you feel in your heart then if I felt in my heart that I was a cat, would I then be a cat?

God=Lord Jesus Christ hates Judaism, Islam and other false religions that refuse Him. satan like the same deceiving devices he uses won't be around for too long.

Seriously. The ugliest one

Hell yeah. He was gorgeous!

Beautiful smile

Is he Temani/Yemenite? His hair gives it away

😂😂😂

thats why evangelicals are fooled into calling it Gods chosen people because its not the seed of abraham. good enough people but you don't chose to be chosen you just are chosen or your not.

+Chris R Actually even Arab researchers Zahiri (2003) and Zalloua (2004, with Wells) agree that J2 is Canaanite (Abrahamic) DNA that entered Israel via Mesopotamia -- the same as the Bible says Abraham was born in "Ur," a Mesopotamian city. *Today's Israelites (especially Ashkenasi/Lemba: the lightests AND the darkest are the MOST CLOSELY related when it comes to this J2 issue) are predominantly this "J2" subclade.*

Probably stoned as well

@@agi_zett are you persian arghawan?

@@NestaSimbaSauti exactly what I had on my mind when I saw him :D

😁💚

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and he was the least attractive of the lot. I don’t find them attractive at all.

It’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. You get half your genes from your father and half from your mother. In many cases someone can even have way more dna from their fathers line as the entire family was Jewish dating back 1000’s of years. Yet only the maternal line for a few generations for example.

@@jamesjohnson-ox2yk the historical reason for this is because Jews were often enslaved by larger empires, especially Rome, and rape was common during war. This rule allowed Jewish identity to be passed regardless of the fathers status. But I think now we should do away with this rule.

@@EzraB123 yes Im very aware that’s the reason the rule was first applied. That is not at all necessary anymore. We have dna to tell who a father is (if it was necessary and there was doubts) and Jewish women are not being raped in the diaspora. Notwithstanding intermarriage has never in Jewish history been as high as it is now therefore there would have never been such a high number of patrilineal Jews and a need to revise this outdated law. The Torah also went by patrilineal descent. I can speak for myself as a son of a Jewish father non Jewish mother and say I was raised just as Jewish if not more and have the same dna as anyone else who is considered Jewish by Halacha. Thanks for your reply.

@@jamesjohnson-ox2yk Yeah I think I speak for many Jews when I say a lot of us are annoyed by the Rabbinical establishment, particularly in Israel. The Karaites for example follow patriarchal descent. And there is a danger in playing the the game of "how Jewish are you?" It's divisive.

@@EzraB123 It's not due to rape or slavery though. The main theories concerning the shift to matrilineal law are emulation of Roman law (which was matrilineal, if your father was a slave and your mother a citizen you were a citizen) or inspired by isur kil'ayim. A likelier theory however is that this law was designed to prevent intermarriage, back in the day women had no say on who their partner was, all marriages were arranged by the family (shiddukhim) and restricting Jewishness to matrilineal inheritance basically meant making intermarriage impossible. This shift likely occurred during the Tannaitic period, genetically most Jewish communities are of Israelite descent along the paternal line and local descent on the maternal line (so the matrilineal principle certainly postdates the destruction of the 2nd Temple). I'm the guy who asked the question by the way.

Well when you are baby the convert process for a boy is very easy ... He need to pass the circumcise.if your a girl its easier and in age 12 you've got the bat mitzvah ... So to all comment above its easy step for the sons and girls

What kind of question is that to ask a kid?

Not sure but Islam, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't take much to become a Catholic.

They converted to Judaism, so they are classified as Jewish.

That becomes from which? Before it came from the father after the mother. Halakha is one thing to convert and Judaism is so much based in relationship, family. The issue on the kids mix marriage discover backgrounds and roots. Make a long story and than go with definitions. One thing in Israel other in Jewish Communities abroad. Since I would explain but people are fucked, i could go on. The conversion make sense just for relationship. Israel get the differences. The point is the Rabbinate are strict. With the mother it makes sense. I know it so let's look at Adam and Eve. Man withs Women kids family. Judaism can just preserve when having relations a family etc. From there some laws definition on this and that.

Modern-day Jews has almost nothing to do with Abraham, Isaac and Jacobs seeds!

Ironically Hittites were more closely related to modern europeans than any other people. They even spoke a Indo-European language

Actually, Hittites are decedents of Ham, who is the father of Africans and Arabs. Europeans are decedents of Japheth. Go read Genesis chapter 10. It will break down the table of nations for you. We don't know what languages they spoke, because there is no records of that. The only record is from scripture that tells us they are Hamite's. Even Midianites are decent of Ham.

RawIronMix Judaism is really hypocritical to its followers

RawIronMix, your example of Ruth proves nothing for your assertion because Ruth converted to Judaism. THIS is why her child was considered to be Jewish. You're also mistaken in your claim that it is the Talmud which determines that it is the mother. There are many proofs showing this is a mistake on your part. Read Rashi's commentary on Deut. chapter 7 verse 4 which is in fact the source that shows that the mother determines the Jewishness of the child. (or lack thereof) Also read Ezra chapter 9 and 10. Take particular notice of chapter 10 verse 3. Verse 3 clearly shows the children of the union of a Jewish man with a non Jewish woman means the child is a Gentile. Otherwise it would have been forbidden to send the child away with the mother as it is forbidden to send away a Jewish child with a Gentile.

@RawIronMix I concur.

same but i didn't convert.. yet

@@alyssarasmussen1723 If you do the conversion, you should do it by an orthodox rabbi who has authority. Reform & conservative conversions are not universally recognized.

@@scottsimon8543 my grandma is a reform jew so idk if i would feel like u know.. honestly idk maybe ur right xd

Only the mother counts! Unless you convert oorthodox!

These the people are ignorant!

But you can make Aliyah to Israel, right?

lol i thought religion was aa personal choice.... this is racist religion and foked up.

Being a Jew is a birth right and is not a religion. Being Jewish is a religion. Go back and ask the rabbi why is he not oppressed with the southern tribe? And when did his forefathers go into the desert prior to 1948? Them ask him where is Christ? Because the Torah says when the true Jews are back in isreal Christ will usher them back in and that it will be both isreal and Judah. Most importantly the Mashiach will be with them. They are imposters!

You are right if you don’t accept they aren’t sincere Jews. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Leviticus 19:33-34).

we will accept you

You’re just as Jewish as anyone else my friend don’t listen to these idiots that have no idea what they’re talking about.

There you go, well said. I think I'm in the same situation as you. My father was Jewish, but from two parents who were also Jewish, descendants of Jews over many generations. My name is Jewish. While my mother is not Jewish. I have built a complex identity for myself, but one that includes Jewishness. Especially since my father was a victim of the Holocaust (his family went into hiding during the war), and my great-grandfather died in the Lodz ghetto. So I am a descendant of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, circumcised by the way, and of a non-Jewish mother. This heritage weighs heavily and that's why I lean towards the Jewish side. But it's more cultural, that is to say the philosophical reflection stemming from the universalist Jewish tradition. And of course anti-Semitism makes me react as a "Jew".

Screw the religious law. Half was Jewish enough for the ovens. Also, according to DNA analysis, most Ashkenazi Jews descend from Jewish men and four European women, I believe.

Just go reform. Done. Unless you weren't raised jewish. Either way if you wanna convert convert

I feel the same way. Although my situation is even weirder since my father converted to Christianity. But I also grew up with my paternal grandparents who consider themselves Jewish and celebrate Jewish holidays.

Solomon770 nah, you’re not Jewish. Respect the law and you weren’t Bar Mitzvah. If mother Mary wasn’t a Jew, Jesus wouldn’t be a Jew. However, you can believe in what you want lol

Good idea, it's definitely better to be Jewish, because Jews are better, as Phil Roth put it.

f off nazi

mary sacrificed her son for you in your own country. leave jews alone. come fight and die. here. f u nazi.

I saw your comment from 4 years ago. How are you holding up?

Laura Cappell, may I ask what you mean when you say you identify so much more with the Jewish faith?

Laura Cappell Don't worry you a are jew according to the Torah. But not says the stupids rabbis. Apriori, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the torah itself says about Patriarchs side or lineage not including female Sarah (as do arabs), are both the physical and spiritual ancestors of Judaism. "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me said The Lord G'd of Israel". They founded the religion now known as Judaism, and their descendants are the Jewish people. Of course, technically, it is incorrect to refer to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as Jews, because the terms "Jew" and "Judaism" were not used generally to refer to this nationuntil hundreds of years after their time; nevertheless, for convenience and in accordance with common practice, I will use these terms. The history below is derived from written Torah,Talmud, Midrash and other sources. Modern scholars question the existence of the Patriarchs and the historical accuracy of this information; however, it is worth noting that scholars also questioned the existence of Babylonia and Troy... until archaeologists found them. In short, Judaism by motherhood alone, is the invention of the rabbis. He may also be a Jew on the mother's side, but not a single rule of law according to the torah. Anyway, what is more important, what is written in the holy Torah, or the Talmud, Midrash writen by crazies rabbis from the centuries passed. The descendants of Israel became slaves in Egypt. They suffered greatly under the hand of later Pharaohs. But G-d brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses. G-d led them on a journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai. Here, G-d revealed Himself to the Children of Israel and offered them a great covenant: if the people would hearken to G-d and observe His covenant, then they would be the most beloved of nations, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. (Ex 19). G-d revealed the Torahto his people, both the written and oral Torah, and the entire nation responded, "Everything that the L-rd has spoken, we will do!" According to Jewish tradition, every Jewish soul that would ever be born was present at that moment, and agreed to be bound to this covenant. By: Ryan Mitchell Wallach Junnior (bachelor in Law and Theology, also Master in Law with spacialization in lnternational Law)

Ryan Mitchell Shlomo Wallach Junnior So who was Sarah’s Mom? Obviously not a Jew if she’s called a “founder” so the whole theory caves in.

@@JohnSmith-is4uu you ask "So who was Sarah’s Mom?" My response, Sarah being a convert to Judaism, makes your question irrelevant.

Accepting of what? What do you mean?

I feel for you on a personal level. If you are truly drawn to Torah I suggest you speak with an Orthodox Rabbi. He can provide you with guidance in these matters.

I am the opposite of you with a Jewish mother now passed away and a non Jewish father and I have my own deal of identity crisis. At the same time I am "happy" to have the etiquette "Jewish" but at the same time people around me don't consider me too much jew and I dont frequent Jews nowadays. Whatever you are Jew or not I think the most important is to find who you are in your own way, and to marry the good person that you love (I remain to do that !)

The Torah tells you...not anyone else!

sksman, One is English or Irish because of where they were born. Jewishness has nothing to do with where the person was born. Also, Moses did not marry an Ethiopian woman. You have a mistranslation if you this is what you read. The word "kushees" there does not mean "Ethiopian".

It's a religious thing. Jesus wasn't 'mixed', his genetics come from his mother who was descended from Jews. The spirituality of a Jew is passed down through the mother. As for all these examples of Jews like Moses, Joseph etcetera, their children were practicing Jews & their wives converted to Judaism so they were actual Jews.

@@stlouisix3, correct.

Jesus was mixed what have you been smoking 😂

@@crazyanimeloveable, you state "Jesus was mixed what have you been smoking" My response, what I think he meant was that if Mary was a descendant of King David, then she came from mixed stock as King David's great grandmother was not born Jewish. Of course there is absolutely no evidence that Mary was descended from King David so the point is moot. As to my perspective on things, jesus was in truth of mixed stock because his father was a Roman soldier named Joseph Pantera. Nevertheless he was still Jewish because Jewishness is based on one's mother rather than father.

Many of the Israelites fled to Africa.. And Deut. Fits the African Slave trade in Wes Africa, even tho i would challenge tht idea of slave ships, But if we talk about today's Jews like in israel as stuff who are clearly white. Their ancestor from male's side is Esau who came out in white/red complexion. And later on he had 2 cannanite wives. And they say that's where today's white jews get the idea of Mother being Jewish then that makes u jewish

Sure anybody can be Jewish & convert, etc. And yeh israel is mixed with many.. But Personally, doing my own research and reading.. To me and to many others, the Ashkanazim are Not the true israelites, or others who are clearly Europeans & who claim they are the descedants of Aberham, etc are not, because according to Torah, Esau is the so called "White" man. And it's logical for me to figure out, the white Jews own the world and banks pretty much. And torah says the real israelites of today are still cursed, (The modern Jews dont sound like cursed people) and that there would be Peace in Israel once the real Israelites return. And there is no peace in the pirate state of Israel. It's all a fake, and don't fit the discription, i can go on about the north africans there, and Iraqi jews, but i wont.

And it's just my opinion on it, and what i come to understand from evidence i found personally. U can disagree, that's kool

Ahmed Dear Ahmed, we are listening to this over and over again for the past 2000 years. We are just bored. Everybody beliefs himself to be an expert on the Jewish nation and Judaism. The Christians used to say, they are the new chosen nation and started to convert us by force and persecute us during the Inquisition. Hitler tought Arian people are the chosen people etc....Now the Muslims belief to be chosen, after we allegedly misbehaved and Allah cursed us. In 50 years there might be someone else. Please, talk to your local orthodox rabbi, if this questions bothers you for real. Everybody thinks nowadays he's an expert on Torah and Judaism, since he have read a bad translation....that's not true. I wish you all the best and good luck.

Ahmed The Ashkenazim (Ashkenaz is a term for Germany, that's why they were talking Yiddish, a language mixed of medieval German and Hebrew) are just a fraction of the Jewish nation. The Jews were expelled from Israel in the year 70 by the Roman empire. They were taken as slaves and brought to Europe. Some were sold into northern Africa, which was Christian at that time. That's how the fractions developped. Ashkenazim settled in Germany, Poland etc. Since we were always persecuted, we went from one country to another. After persecutions in Germany to Poland, than to Ukraine, to Belarus etc. Some settled in Spain. That's the Sefaradim. They were expelled in 1492 and moved to Morocco, Turques, Greece, Albania and other countries. That's how we were scattered for the last 2000 years.

There are no such circumstances 😁 😆 😅 😂

When Jews and Muslims accept Christ. In the body of Christ, there is no more Jew and Gentile, no more Muslim and Arab. We are all one nation of God.

Nothing wrong with having a non jewish mother and jewish father , but the problem is you converted in a conservative synagogue. Only orthodox conversion is legitimate.

that's exactly right

would u ask that question now?

I assume in your scenario that the mothers mother was not Jewish. If so, the mother is not Jewish either and thus her child is not Jewish the same way the mother is not Jewish because her mother is not Jewish.

Seriously? My mother and i got the SAME. Shouldn't she have more anyway? Thats so hilarious. 😂😂 Oy Vey im going to Israel too

@@JohnSmith-is4uuhahahahahhaha

Deut. chapter 7 verse 4.

The Torah had not yet been received.

@@talmoskowitz5221 what Torah speaks for Father or Mother lineage? We have only stories in scripture that points to a Father lineage except Ruth due to first son was for her first husband's redemption, and not Boazs but Boaz and Ruth are stated as lineage to David.

Ruth is only.mentioned because she is well know, the subject is boaz as the seedling goes down through men.

@Jay Turan you're right so what's your point?

You have no ability to know that.

Yea of course but not consider as 12 tribes plus bnei isreal they got documention record of lineage..you will never included in that.Only the orthodox was rabbanic.

@@NotLikeWhatYouThink No, there is no modern recognition of tribes except for levites and the subset of cohens. All others are Israelites no matter of parentage or conversion.

May I suggest you speak with an Orthodox Rabbi who can provide guidance for you. I wish you well.

I'm sure someone is interested.

@@charleshowie2074, lmaooo

+goggle "Therefore, simply because you do not understand someone else's family history, that does not mean that you, or anyone else, has a right to lie, attack, and slander what you will NEVER comprehend. " Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHAT??? O_o Don't understand? Someone else's family history?? Such as? WHO'S family history might you be referring to? And "lie?" "Attack," you say? O_o Dude, are you serious? Attack who? WHO have I "attacked?" "You have every right to invent a FALSE religion, but you do NOT have a right to add your LIES to someone else's family religion." Seriously what are you even talking about, and what does it have to do with anything I've said? Seriously. I honestly want to know. Just what false religion do you think I've invented, and just what "lies" have I "added" to someone else's religion?? "The law of who is a Jew, is God's law, and is translated into law in Israel in Amendment 25730-1970* by Jacob's descendant, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and it states, "a Jew is a Jew based on the MOTHER". " Now just wait a second here. Your very response there seems to have ignored completely my own comment. WHAT, *_IS,_* a "Jew?" ???? Answer please. Since you seem to have the definition of it, then please, explain it to me for my own understanding. Is the word "Jew" even mentioned ANYWHERE in the Torah? or better yet, the Tanakh??? WELL????...*_IS_* it????? Please, answer me. "....and is translated into law in Israel in Amendment 25730-1970* by Jacob's descendant, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and it states, "a Jew is a Jew based on the MOTHER". " So, if a "Jew" says it, then it must be true? LOL My friend, in all sincerity, do you even realize, that by that very logic, you have no basis by which to deny the words of Yeshua? "All Paternal Jews are FAKE jEWS, and are NOT related to the children of Jacob, The ONLY Jews of God." You know, _SOME_ people (and I'm not one of them) claim that _ALL_ of the Jews are "fake Jews." Do you even realize that? But seriously though, "not related to..." Okay, really, dude? I know you _can't_ really be that stupid, _can_ you? Or are you? Oh, God help you if you are..... Please explain to me with sound reasoning why it is that you see it that someone who has a Jewish father and a gentile mother should be considered any less *_ETHNICALLY_* Jewish than a person who had a Jewish mother and gentile father. Thank you. Like SERIOUSLY, how can you possibly be so stupid?? A descendant of Jacob *_IS_* A DESCENDANT OF JACOB! PERIOD.

***** "the law states as translated by Rabbi Shlomo Amar " A Jew is born of Jewish Mother"." I'm not sure why anyone should see the words of Shlomo Amar as having any more weight or accuracy much less credibility, than say, oh, Shlomo Sand, who, btw, I happen to disagree with fully and who I think is dishonest. That rule, as you very well know, comes only from the _Talmud,_ *_NOT_* the Torah or Tanakh. The Talmud, my friend, is _not_ scripture.

***** Where in the TORAH does it state that Jews are those, and only those, with a Jewish mother? In all that you have typed, you have yet to answer the question. How about saving both of us the time (which I really don't have) in reading voluminous posts and just answer the question for me, thank you. All you have to do is post the verse. That is all. Is the term "Jew" ever even really defined in the Bible, ANYWHERE? Simple answer: NO, it *_ISN'T._* You can not deny this. In _fact,_ the term "Jew" is NOWHERE -- understand -- *_N-O-W-H-E-R-E,_* in the Hebrew Bible. It is a man made term. Better yet, or rather, _in addition to,_ actually answering my question, just how do you define the word "Jew?" What does that word even mean? To understand the meaning of the word would do a great deal in making sure we are actually having an intelligent discussion as opposed to simply talking over one another. Do you speak Hebrew, by any chance?

***** "And one of those laws is interpreted by Rabbi Shlomo Amar in Amendment Number 25730-1970*." Not a biblical source. ".... And that law states, "a Jew is born of a Jewish Mother", that descended from the tribes of Jacob. And those Jews of Jacob, their mt-DNA codes from the Mother and their y-chromosomes codes from the father all match one another, because they are ONE FAMILY that descended from Jacob." That doesn't even make sense. mtDNA and Y chromosomes are two different things, duh.

***** "as all Gentile religions follow the Father." You mean as opposed to the _Judaic_ Bible, which is THE SAME Bible followed by Christians?? O_o That makes no sense. "Your concern is with your religion and your deity, whatever it may be." But not as is the case with Jews?? O_o "As the children of Jacob, the true Jews," What do you mean, "children of Jacob?" You mean _descendants_ of Jacob? "...ONLY concern is with their God, their religion, their Hebrew Torah Scrolls, and their interpretations of their laws as commanded by their God." Only the Torah? How about the _Tanakh?_ "And one of those laws is interpreted by Rabbi Shlomo Amar in Amendment Number 25730-1970*." Where in the *_Torah_*(_or_ Tanakh) does one find this "amendment?" ??

Like Matan Levy said, yes, but why would you want to convert? You can do anything you want as a gentile except killing, stealing, and the like. I don't think you'd want to all of a sudden wake up to have thousands of commandments on your shoulders.

613+7 mandatory de-rabanan, plus hundreds of commandments de-rabanan plus halakhot. I know what I'm saying. Don't underexaggerate the truth for them

+Matan Levy And it stops at being different based on gender. You're still left with a four-digit-figure. What country are you in?

Naturally. That explains the slight leniency in your comments.

Before 1980 if a native man married a white women shed get status. If a Native women married a white man, she'd be stripped of status. Full Native is 6:1 status. Half Native is 6:2 status btw for those who don't know. A half can marry another half and make full again. Marrying back in so to speak. So now there's a lot of Natives without status and a lot of white people with status. It was in order to dilute and destroy the Native bloodline. And It's sexist and Degrading towards Native women. It makes far more sense that it goes through the mother. You always know who the mother is but the father is never certain. Especially without DNA tests. Genealogy has always been traced through women in many Native tribes. It's also traced through the women's DNA as well. I'm Native American. Mohawk. Bay of Quinte, Akwasasne. And Brantford 6 Nations.

They can't change it, its what's written in the torah

0myjoe Selfishness is the real problem not religion.

Religion teaxhes selfishness and the hate of everyone who is different or thinks differently

Wal Morocco if you say so

There goes the intolerant atheist at it again. It's funny how you atheist want freedom for everyone on Earth except the religious.

thyartismurder 512 Stalin was an atheist. North Korea isn't religious, neither is Cuba... atheists are just as bad and they hate anyone who isn't an atheist (i.e. religious people).

He can but he is not Jewish. Only if mother is Jewish or you convert at the Beth Din.

That's what happens when you treat a religion as an exclusive Genetic Club! Especially when Enoch could have been a 7th generation alien hybrid and Noah the 10th! There are records to indicate that they were built between 10-12 ft. tall and lived an average of 1000 years! That puts all modern humans at another not so exclusive club which limits height to 7' and age to under 120 years! Bottom line if you want to be chosen, you have to choose to live a life in harmony with all beings and be a power of good and positive change!

mashaallah

All of us not alien i still pooped like human.

Ewwww Islam is ugly

They weren't Jewish, they were Hebrews.

European Knight, a person is a Jew based on the mother alone. One can descend from their mother from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as well. But that is not really the issue anyway. The tribe a person belongs to is determined however by one's father. If the father is a Gentile and the mother is Jewish, the child is a Jew without a tribe.

Joshua Creasey you're not making sense. What's false?

@Joshua Creasey he's actually one of the few people here who got it right. Why false?

The religion of Judaism is passed down matrilineally because during ancient times they didn't have a way to test who the father was and you always know who the mother is lol

Wow what a change

Is this entirely through the female side? (mothers mothers mothers mother) If so, please speak to an Orthodox Rabbi about your situation. He can guide you better than anybody on you tube. :-)

That would make your grandmother jewish

There are literally millions like you out there. While Jews tend to mourn the lost tribes, the fact that many Jews converted, either forcibly or by free will or married out to other religions (mostly Islam and Christianity) is usually disregarded.

@@times6283 yes true 😊 just my mother told me be silent about Jewish routes , even my grandfather Jewish too but am a Muslim becuase I grow up as one 😊 Jewish or Muslim I still submit to the one God Lord of Abraham and moses 💙

+TheWonderfulKushites Because that's when/where and with whom The Covenant was made. Today identified as Northwest Semites, and having primarily J2 (proto-Canaanite) DNA, originally by alZahiri 2003, but then by dozens of subsequent researchers, thereby becoming the scientific consensus -- especially after Behar et al 2013 destroyed the Khazar Hypothesis. J2 contains Neanderthal DNA (green et al, 2010), and thus is a Caucasoid subclade. However, people as dark as the African Lemba share the J2. Berbers, Druze, Assyrian Christians, some Kurds, and ~30% of Lebanese -- ALL (not only the Ashkenasim) of whom have paler skin than the Arabs -- are the main base of the J2 peoples of today. (Arabs are firmly proven to be J1: SOUTHERN Semites, not native the the Israel/Lebanon coast (TheLevant)...native to only the Saudi Peninsula from Yemen to roughly Riyadh: The Lemba, despite being darker in OUTWARD appearance than the Arabs, are actually more native to Israel than the Arabs, and are more closely related to the paler Jews/Lebanese/etc than the Arabs). Egyptian pharaohs drew them here, just 1 century before the Canaanite civil wars (Wars OfJoshua, aka The Bronze age Collapse) -- *Israelites are at center-right... note the big noses, and even the Jew-beard*, and at far-left are the related Canaanites (became Phoenicians, then today's Druze, Maronites, some Kurds and Assyrians): google.com/search?q=book+of+gates&num=20&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMI4omz6M3PxwIVxnuSCh3tBgsk#imgrc=J9v39UFALkm-JM%3A

TheWonderfulKushites Satan, duh... Actually any woman present at mt. Sinai during the Exodus is automatically Jewish regardless of her actual ancestry. The problem is only about 8% of us have that DNA, and the other 92% are a bunch of liars...

Converts are Jewish, though. According to Judaism.

TheWonderfulKushite, it is your misunderstanding of Judaism that is the culprit. You say none of the 12 sons married Israelites because there were none. How do you know this? Were you there to see whom they married?

God=Lord Jesus Christ is Jewish. He's also universal because He is God , Emmanuel. Abraham, Issac, Jacob and the ones that descend from them are Jewish too. God=Lord Jesus Christ know who His sheep are. whether they are jewish or gentile. it makes no difference to Him. God=Lord Jesus Christ is the good Shepherd. who lays down His life for His sheep. John 10:11 Jesus the Good Shepherd …10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.… Psalm 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. Isaiah 40:11 Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes. Ezekiel 34:2 "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? Ezekiel 34:11 For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.

me me Jesus Christ's mother Mary is Jewish and a descendant of David. Jesus' stepfather is Joseph also a descendant of David. God=Lord Jesus Christ developed His infant body through the Holy Ghost. That is how Mary being a virgin got pregnant as she gave birth to the Messiah , the Savior. So yes God is Lord Jesus Christ and He is Jewish and He inherited the throne of David. He's the King of Kings. He's also universal since He's everywhere at once. Isaiah 7:14 The Sign of Immanuel …13Then he said, "Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? 14"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. 15"He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.… Luke 1:31 Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you shall give Him the name Jesus. Matthew 1:23 The Birth of Jesus …22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23“Behold! The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”). 24When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.…

TheElizabeth125, your answer though is incorrect. The mother determines the Jewishness of the child. In fact the father in a mixed relationship is not even considered to be the father at all. The child of such a union technically speaking has no father. This so called father would even be allowed to marry his own daughter according to Torah law should the child convert to Judaism. (though it is Rabinicallly prohibited. though not for the reason that the person is considered the father)

@@meme-bd5hk bullshit dude.

@@eleSDSU, back at ya dude... Oh, and get an education on Judaism rather than being obtuse.

@@meme-bd5hk If that were true then Obed woulda been a Moabite. You need to come to terms with what HaShem says, instead of what some self-proclaimed rabbi''s believe and teach out of erroneous Talmudic garbage.

It makes no sense to try and isolate either gender as the "carrier" of "ethnic Judaism". Today, we have ancestral genetic tests to show who is an "ethnic Jew" - regardless of the sex of either parent - whereas in Biblical times, they had to rely on non-scientific means of discerning "ethnic Jews" from everyone else (like halacha). But today, if someone has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, a DNA test will show that, simultaneously revealing ancestry leading back to Palestine. Unfortunately non-European Jews have no means of tracing their Jewish ancestry via DNA as of yet.

+goggle that way you separate your own people, my friend who is jewish by her father side is in israel and fights with the IDF for YOUR freedom yet she wont be a jew..bet you wont mind she dies. sick man. I am not jew btw 100% white.

V Turpin, so using your logic, let us also count the population of cats as Jewish and then our numbers will really climb. & then let us count ants as being Jewish. Then our numbers will REALLY climb.

@@meme-bd5hk that is a strawman arguement

@@husskiii, you claim my response is a strawman arguement. Ok, then please tell me what the difference is between adding people arbitrarily to adding cats and ants to increase the total number count. Keep in mind the argument presented was that the more we count to be Jewish the higher our total numbers will be.

Is he circumcised ?

no, but it doesn't matter. His mother at his birth wasn't really connected to Judaism so she didn't want to, but now she is. Besides many Israelis today do not get their kids circumcised...

many ? No...

many yes, I read an article about it here in Israel..

Your boyfriend is not Jewish. He may follow Jewish traditions and feel connected, but he is not connected unleast he converts properly. It's nothing wrong with him. Everyone is a human being and deserves respect. But he is not Jewish.

***** Jews are an ethnoreligious group. Whether you're practicing or not, you're still Jewish in terms of ethnicity.

***** Actually a committee of rabbis is assigned to track down anyone with a Jewish mother who tries to leave the "club" and kidnap them, take them to an Orthodox synagogue and drink wine with their mouth full of Hamentoshen & matsa whilst being forced to listen to their MOTHER telling them how guilty they should feel, indefinitely *until they acknowledge God and their Jewishness and that they will marry a Jew and raise Jewish children.* Isn't the last part something similar for Hindu-related religions... the PARENTS freak out if you intermarry?

i feel sad for u.... 💔

Your post is very perplexing, If you are converting why would you consider yourself to be Jewish currently? Are you speaking about this with an Orthodox Rabbi?

Also you can't be half jewish.

You’re half Khazar.

***** good work.

***** Ashkenasi and Sephardi mtDNA are near-identical, per Behar et al 2008, and FL Bedford (2011) and plosone [[dot]] org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002062.t002&representation=PNG_S ...and the Torah contradicts you (Ezra 10:16, Bamidbar 1:18, Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews 16.225, 18.109, 18.139, 18.141, 14.8-10, 14.121, 14.403), Malachi 3:6-7 & 4:5-6, Num 1:18 & 36:4, Lev 24:10-11). Judah married a Pagan Canaanite WOMAN, Joseph an Egyptian WOMAN, Moses a Midianite and an Ethiopian, David a Philistine WOMAN, and Solomon numerous GENTILE WOMEN. We geneticists see Israelite men taking gentile wives all the way to ~800 AD at LEAST for Ashkenasim AND Sephardim (Costa et al, Nature Communications 2013), and even longer -- usually to TODAY -- for most other diaspora groups. Some Ashkenasim & Sephardim who ALSO never gave up taking the reilgion of the FATHER include the Karaite and Merkaba sects. and...J2 = the native (proto-Canaanite) DNA per alZahiri 2003 and Zalloua/Wells 2004; it's also a Y (male side) sequence. here is Ashkenasim carrying the J2 (SCROLLDOWN TO THE 5 PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES, in a graph/table): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_of_Jewish_origins#Y-DNA_of_Ashkenazi_Jews (in fact they have MORE of J2 than Sephardim (just by a few percent) and several more % J2 than Misrachim. Jews who share J2 include the Lemba (South Africa), Cochin (India), tiny bit of the Igbo (West Africa), AND the aforenoted Misrahim, Ashkenasi, AND Sephardim: surely a people CAST TO THE CORNERS OF THE EARTH as Torah prophesied. Show us a MATRILINEAL line originating in Canaan but MATRILINEAL (mtDNA), shared by people with similar (Judaic) practices on >2 continents.

+goggle I liked your long answer.But whats the different between Sephardi,and Arab jews?Ive always taught that,Maghreb,Yemen,Spanish jews are the same,they are the tru,originally jews.And the white,90%,the khazar askenazim.

+vq ari actually he is half jewish but his religion is of course is not jewish (unless if he converts)

+goggle Wrong again: the DNA that unites Jews is J2 -- a paternal DNA not maternal -- PEER REVIEWED AND THE Scientific Consensus: Zalloua and Wells, 2004 Behar et al 2013 alZahiri 2003 ...and literally dozens more contradict you. *The reason you can't cite ANY researchers supporting your bizarre maternalist theory,* as I just did, is you don't know your own arse from a hole in the wall. you = typical pseudo-scientific Islamotard (Organised Religion / dogmatic).

you would be jewish

You cant be half jewish

If your father was European, then you're a descendant of Japhet.

i know KellyKSM1974 thats why i asked the question. because moses married an ARAB, therefore (according to the jewish tradition) his decendants are ARAB. haha. peace and love

wolf ish Medianites are not Arabs. They are a nomadic desert tribe....No proof can be found of them being ARABS.

Moses married Tzipporah who was a MIdianite convert to Judaism.

Joseph married a Jewish woman. Asnas was the daughter of Dinah.

Judah did not marry a Canaanite. He married a merchant's daughter. The merchant's name was Shua.

"Originally Tribal and Israeli birthright or membership was Paternal. " TY, and whatever rulings issued after this is not of Hashem.