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Half-Jewish?

I've always wondered, how can anyone be half-Jewish? It doesn't make sense to me. I've heard some people mention that they're half-Jewish but how can that be? Isn't it like someone saying their half-Muslim or half-Christian? Isn't it more the case that they are either Jewish or not Jewish as it is a choice to be Jewish or not?

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Because apparently it's an ethnicity also
Reply 2
It can't be an ethnicity any more than any other religion. You choose your religion, not ethnicity. People just need to accept that.
It is unique in being an ethnicity as well as a religion :smile:
Original post by !!mentor!!
It can't be an ethnicity any more than any other religion. You choose your religion, not ethnicity. People just need to accept that.



Please educate yourself.
Isn't Jewishness passed down through the mother?
It's the same as how you can be an atheist of arab decent.

Original post by jedanselemyia
Isn't Jewishness passed down through the mother?


If you are talking about the religion I believe that is culturally normally the case.
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Reply 7
Original post by SophieSmall
Please educate yourself.


You're only saying that because i'm half-Atheist, you racist.
Original post by ChaoticButterfly
If you are talking about the religion I believe that is culturally normally the case.


Well, being Jewish seems to be a religion as well as an ethnicity so it would doubly symbolic. But I know a girl whose dad is Jewish and she seems Jewish too.
Original post by jedanselemyia
Well, being Jewish seems to be a religion as well as an ethnicity so it would doubly symbolic. But I know a girl whose dad is Jewish and she seems Jewish too.


Well if you re talking in terms genetics I doubt it is that simple :lol:
Reply 10
Original post by Skip_Snip
It is unique in being an ethnicity as well as a religion :smile:


No its not because it is not possible.
Reply 11
Original post by SophieSmall
Please educate yourself.


What he said was 100% true. Hebrew(semetic israelites) is the ethnicity while judaism is the religion.
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Original post by saeed97
What he said was 100% true. Hebrew is the ethnicity while judaism is the religion.


Hebrew is a language, my sister studies it :lol:
Original post by ChaoticButterfly
Well if you re talking in terms genetics I doubt it is that simple :lol:


You're right, it's pretty confusing
Reply 14
Original post by SophieSmall
Hebrew is a language, my sister studies it :lol:


Yeh but the people are know as the hebrews. In the same way arab is an ethnicity and arabic is the language.
Original post by saeed97
Hebrew is the ethnicity


:lolwut:


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Reply 16

Hebrews as in the semetic israelites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrews
Original post by childofthesun
Because apparently it's an ethnicity also


Hmm this blows my mind
Original post by saeed97
No its not because it is not possible.


It's really not.
Reply 19
Original post by queen-bee
Hmm this blows my mind


My mind is blown too. Apparently being a follower of the jewish faith=being a semetic israelite

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