Isn’t thаt lіkе saying "I’m half catholic"? Doesn’t mаkе much sense. Hοw саn уου bе half-jewish?
Jewish іѕ a religion, nοt a rасе. Well, thеу ARE thе human rасе.
Isn’t thаt lіkе saying "I’m half catholic"? Doesn’t mаkе much sense. Hοw саn уου bе half-jewish?
Jewish іѕ a religion, nοt a rасе. Well, thеу ARE thе human rасе.
Jewish is a religion, not a race. Well, they ARE the human race.
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I don’t get that either
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I wonder what The Huge Man Mr. J has to say about that?
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You can be Jewish lacking practicing the religion. It’s a race or ethnicity and a religion unlike catholicism
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Their are ethnic Israelis who where the natural inhabitants. The others are Ashkenazi Jews.
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According to the Jewish religion,
if your mom isn’t Jewish, then they don’t recognize the child as being Jewish.
Consequently if a kid says "I’m half Jewish", he’s only refering to his dad being Jewish….
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Ben Stiller’s dad is Jewish, but his mum, I believe, was Catholic.
A person can be half- jewish only in the ethnic sense. so ethnically a person with one jewish parent is half-jewish, but religiously there is no such thing as a half-jew. in judaism one is either jewish or gentile depending on their mother or in some denominations either parent.
P.S. Ben Stiller’s mother converted to Judaism
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stiller
You are right but when someone has diverse ancestry they are just trying to clarify in a more simple terms. According to Judaism you are either Jewish or not, there are no half Jews.
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