I want to preface this before anyone gets all up in my face... This diary is meant as a real question.
Religion:
We all know that someone can practice the Jewish faith, Judaism. Going to synagogue, observing the holy days etc. So in that respect, it is a religion.
People of all ethnicity can become Jewish. They can accept the religion as their own and go through whatever rituals are required to then be considered person of Jewish faith.
This is indisputable.
Now comes the gray area, the one I don't quite understand and have conflicting information about.
Nationality and Ethnicity.
You see, in my family tree, just like Markos and our hate mailer George Rockwell, my family has Jewish "blood". We did a DNA test and there are indicators that our ancestors were Jewish.
Looking into our family tree we have found many instances of people who were Jewish. Most of them converted to Catholicism during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Birth and Death certificates never tell the whole story so we do not know if they continued to practice in secret.
Some of them were from Russia and Spain/Portugal. Some from Germany. As most of you know, there were Jewish people scattered throughout Europe, practicing or not.
Jewish law requires that your mother be Jewish for you to be Jewish.
Our family also carries Tay-Sachs, which is prevalent among the Ashkenazi Jewish population.
So is Jewish an ethnicity, like Hispanic, Asian?
Is it a nationality?
There are anecdotal stories that some of our relatives may have practiced some of the Jewish holidays,
If you believe the bible, it would be surprising to find people who actually did not have ANY jewish genetics in them.
Sooooooo am I part Jewish?.... discuss amongst yourselves
