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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shana Tova! Op, it’s a new year. How do you plan to put this angst behind you?[/quote]

I’m mostly just upset about the number of people who feel it necessary to attack someone for discussing their background.

I recognize the title was wrong; I wrote it hastily and it is inaccurate.

However, the number of you who continue to deny Ashkenazi Jews exist as an ethnic and genetic group is upsetting to me.

I don’t “crave” some identification as a descendant of Holocaust victims; that’s simply a fact of my family’s history. My great grandparents were some of the few in their family who escaped the pogroms in Ukraine and Russia. Most of my uncle’s family died in the Holocaust. I don’t find this interesting; it’s just a fact.

My sole point—poorly articulated—is that part of being Jewish, for some, is having Jewish ancestry. It doesn’t mean converts aren’t Jewish; it simply means there is a genetic, ethnic component to it for those with certain genetic backgrounds. The vitriol in this thread helps prove why the thread is necessary. [/quote]

So this is how it goes.

There's an area.  People congregate, create cultures and languages (and dialects), and depending upon the climate, may have different skin tones.  They hang together, marry and have kids.  They keep the DNA "pure" in some cases.  And guess what?  They create a set of beliefs that gets through this lifetime - beliefs about a supreme being and traditions that go along with the beliefs in order to ensure that followers are obedient.

Religion is a belief system.  The genetics around a group of people are more complicated.  But when people travel, they take their religious beliefs with them, and more often than not, people traveled in "pacts."

I am 80% Greek-Italian, according to my DNA tests.  I have 12% that represents Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and parts of N. Africa.  That doesn't mean I'm a practicing Muslim.  same could be said for that odd 7% "Jewish" DNA in my make up

So while these genetic tests categorize by Jewish ancestry, it's the intermixing of DNA - or at the other extreme, the need to be insular - that creates someone's make up.  NOT the religion[/quote]

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