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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fascinating links!  Thank you.

I believe that our religion and culture is such a small minority that we can't afford to turn others away.  Let us embrace these new Jews.[/quote]

I don't think anyone is arguing we should turn people away.

The argument--poorly articulated--was that there is an ethnic/genetic basis to one's Jewish identity, for most Jews.  [/quote]

Sigh. Have missed the last few posts, but let me dive in here.  I can see an "ethnic" component as in "my great grandparents were Jews, so I feel a connection to Jews, even though I not only have nothing to do with Judaism, but also nothing to do with Jewish secular culture"

What I have a problem with is "none of the relatives I actually know by name were Jews, but a genetic testing service says I have "jewish genes" so I am ethnically Jewish"

In one case we are using ethnic to mean a connection to specific individuals who were part of a community one can know about. I don't care for that form of identification (to me secular Jewishness means actually being part of Jewish culture - Yiddish speaking atheism will do if you are not religious) but its coherent.  The latter is using "ethnic" as a euphemism for "racial" and is, IMO very problematic. It would be so even if the genetic tests were guaranteed accurate, but it is more so in that they are not.  [/quote]

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