Not in the eyes of science... Again, people can gloss themselves however they like, but from any reasonable perspective, Jewish is based on religion. Atheistic Semites are not Jewish by any reasonable standard...and to allow a small group (the Orthodox Jews are even a smaller group) to set the terminology is not terribly sane. If Muslims did something similar how would we act? We all know all Muslims are not Arabs, and not all Arabs are Muslims...but somehow all Jewish people are genetically linked and Jewish designation has nothing to do with religion of Judaism? It is inconsistent, logically. Why the atheists like the one below would even reference people who try to follow the law of Moses, who try to be good people as being the same as they are is lunacy... We are born with what we are born with, we are descended genetically from our ancestors, but to put that before what we decide to do, what we decide to think, is primitive and tribal. Early Americans had their fill of monarchy, and pomp and ego of those who were "royal" based on blood lines. America wasn't about blood lines, America was about what the person made of their life... Americans would do well to crush this stupidity of allowing a small group to dominate the conversation, especially when it has to do with interpretations of religion. America is best when it is secular in worldly matters, and religious in spiritual matters...spiritual matters being private and not dealing with worldly matters. All good Jews follow the law of Moses, just like all good Christians follow the path of Jesus Christ... Say some lunatic came out with some crazy interpretation of the Bible, claiming that if someone's mother was a Christian, that automatically made that person a Christian...even if they denounced Jesus Christ. We would laugh, and think such a person daft...
The name of the religion is Judaism, not Jew and this is where your absurd logic is falling apart. Jew is more like an ethnicity. If your mother is jewish, you are a Jew and you don't need to practice Judaism to remain a jew. If you are not born to a Jewish mother, you can convert to Judaism and become a Jew. You can write a dissertation on how illogical you think it is and it won't change the fact that this is what it means to be a jew and this is how the jews identify themselves as a group.
Oh gosh, the Israeli children support their troops and the weapons that protects them from Hamas, Hezbollah and another Holocaust. How dare they. No wonder nazi scum like you are not happy that this time Jews are fighting back instead of peacefully marching into gas chambers and there is not a single damn thing you can do about it.
The name of the religion is Christianity, not Christian... That is where you logic falls apart. As illustrated previously, an individual or a tribe can gloss themselves any way they like...that doesn't mean rational society has to go along with the terminology the individual or tribe chooses...
Right... and how does it change the fact that Jews are an ethnicity? Many jews practice Judaism, many don't. Just like an Italian whose parents are Italians is still an Italian even if he is not practicing any form of Christianity. There is another thread here about Henry Kissinger and Soviet jews. Guess what, virtually none of the Soviet jews was religious, practiced Judaism or ever was in a synagogue. Yet the entire world called them JEWS because that's who they were. Now that you've been sufficiently schooled and spanked you can stick your ridiculous ideas, definitions and posts in your bottom, no one cares about your perverted views.
Jews are not an ethnicity. Say a black woman converts to Judaism one day, and the following day in childbirth dies with the biological father being a full blooded Cherokee Indian having died upon conception. Her child is adopted and raised as by a white Catholic couple from Denmark. The child is a Jew? Nonsense... You can spout whatever nonsense you like, but it is irrational for less than 1% of the worlds population to be making the rules on who is a Jew, because they want a broad classification system based on tribal thinking. The kid has no Semitic blood in him, no Jewish religion and culture, speaks Danish...and you would label him a Jew? Crazy man, just crazy... The child is half black, half American Indian, and raised by Catholics in a Danish culture. That is the fact. Who the child decides to identify with is his choice, but facts are undeniable that the child is not the descendant of one of the tribes of Israel. Oh well, when people look to the ancient texts to create means of identifications, we can only expect primitive results as the consequence. If the child decides to convert to the religion of Judaism, and practice Judaism, then he would be a Jew...and only then as Jew is a member of the Jewish religion.
ROTFLOL, I cant believe your idiocy, you started your post by stating that Jews are not an ethnicity and went on to make a very strong case that they are and that a child of a converted black woman can't be considered a Jew because he has no Semitic blood and thus is not ethnically jewish. You ARE an illogical moron.
================== Building /giving on the east side of town mabe a good idea; unless one thinks the State Dept can micro manage the Israel real estate market better than the US real estate market. Actually, since an earlier poster mentioned the FED; agree with Authur Burns, an older FED head , who prayed; Lord help the Muslims know Jesus, Lord help the Jews know Jesus, Lord help the Christians know Jesus.
If someone told you Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan were a part of that sleeper cell, you would've ignored him because "the vast majority of western muslims are good people".