'nope! your mother isn't Jewish which means there is nothing Jewish about you! never think about it again!'
Okay, look, maybe Judaism is blanket matrilineal-only in the UK [edit: nope, it's not], but in the U.S. bilineal descent is recognized by both Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism and either way maybe Israel will give you tsuris for it, but that's not the same thing as a judgment of total irrelevance to one's life and/or family traditions. Let me join you in feeling weird!
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Date: 2016-07-13 04:22 am (UTC)I try to be educational!
'nope! your mother isn't Jewish which means there is nothing Jewish about you! never think about it again!'
Okay, look, maybe Judaism is blanket matrilineal-only in the UK [edit: nope, it's not], but in the U.S. bilineal descent is recognized by both Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism and either way maybe Israel will give you tsuris for it, but that's not the same thing as a judgment of total irrelevance to one's life and/or family traditions. Let me join you in feeling weird!