In article <3fmd04dpgcupke9uieeerg0dsuddjnsvkq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:55:14 -0700 (PDT), HHW
><coaster132000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Apr 16, 12:33am, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:45:40 -0700 (PDT), jgarbuz
>>> <jgar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >On Apr 15, 9:18 pm, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:55:23 -0700 (PDT),jgarbuz
>>> >> <jgar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >> >On Apr 15, 3:27 pm, Eli Grubman <eli.grub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>> >> >> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:07:37 GMT, flav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> >> >> >On 15-Apr-2008, g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Graz) wrote:
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>>Ethnicity is cultural, not racial
>No, it is based on genetics/heredity and develops cultural attributes.
>It is determined at birth, not acquired.
Somewhat yes, but mostly no.
>>> >She has cut herself off from her Celtic roots to become an Israelite.
>>> No, she hasn't. She still refers to herself as "Irish".
>>> >She changed tribes. These days people even can change genders. Can
you
>>> >still call a man who has been operated on and turned into a woman a
>>> >man nonetheless?
>>> No, a gelding. Certainly not a "woman".
>>> >Her DNA is still Irish, but she has changed tribes
>>> >and married a Jew, and her childen will be Jews under Jewish law -
>>> No, half-Jewish under the laws of heredity, which overrule "Jewish
>>> law".
>>> >unless they choose to leave the tribe by converting back to the faith
>>> >of different tribes.
>>> Their ethnicity will remain unchanged by any ****ft in religion.
>>If an Irish child is taken at birth to an Orthodox Jewish home and is
>>raised there knowing no other family, will he/she not be ethnically
>>Jewish?
>Culturally Jewish, perhaps, but certainly not ethnically Jewish. It
>will stand out like a sore thumb among ethnic Jews.
This is definitely NOT the case, and it is not the case
in Judaism. One cannot change inheritance, but little
of behavior is inherited.
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