Judaism is a religion, as well as an ethnicity, it's genetically possible to be Jewish without practicing the religion, and you can practice the religion without being genetically Jewish. You can take a DNA test and get a percentage of just how Jewish you are because it *is* an ethnicity. I don't follow the religion, but fsr I'm still Jewish. Neither does my mom or her grandmother, but they're both Jewish. I wonder how that works?? According to you, that's impossible. According to 23 And Me, it's not.
Following a religion doesn't change your genes and it's impossible to pass smth on to your kids (like hair or nose) because of a religion you follow, that's just silly man. If I were Catholic, does that mean my kids' noses would be smaller or straighter? That's not how DNA works, Laura. It's basic biology, it's not influenced by religion. If I suddenly stopped practicing Judaism, that doesn't mean my hair would go straight.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrews says:
"In Armenian, Italian, Greek, the Kurdish languages, Old French, Serbian, Russian, Romanian and a few other languages the transfer of the name from Hebrew to Jew never took place, and "Hebrew" is the primary word used for a Jew. The translation of "Hebrew" is used also in the Kurdish language and was once used also in French.
With the revival of the Hebrew language and the emergence of the Hebrew Yishuv, the term has been applied to the Jewish people of this re-emerging society in Israel or the Jewish people in general."
The word "Hebrew" when describing this ethnicity is synonymous with "Jew". You learn something new every day, Laura. Have a good one.
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Judaism is a religion, as well as an ethnicity, it's genetically possible to be Jewish without practicing the religion, and you can practice the religion without being genetically Jewish. You can take a DNA test and get a percentage of just how Jewish you are because it *is* an ethnicity. I don't follow the religion, but fsr I'm still Jewish. Neither does my mom or her grandmother, but they're both Jewish. I wonder how that works?? According to you, that's impossible. According to 23 And Me, it's not.
Following a religion doesn't change your genes and it's impossible to pass smth on to your kids (like hair or nose) because of a religion you follow, that's just silly man. If I were Catholic, does that mean my kids' noses would be smaller or straighter? That's not how DNA works, Laura. It's basic biology, it's not influenced by religion. If I suddenly stopped practicing Judaism, that doesn't mean my hair would go straight.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrews says:
"In Armenian, Italian, Greek, the Kurdish languages, Old French, Serbian, Russian, Romanian and a few other languages the transfer of the name from Hebrew to Jew never took place, and "Hebrew" is the primary word used for a Jew. The translation of "Hebrew" is used also in the Kurdish language and was once used also in French.
With the revival of the Hebrew language and the emergence of the Hebrew Yishuv, the term has been applied to the Jewish people of this re-emerging society in Israel or the Jewish people in general."
The word "Hebrew" when describing this ethnicity is synonymous with "Jew". You learn something new every day, Laura. Have a good one.