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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It does a disservice to the religion to have people who worship Jesus and take Holy Communion to claim they are Jewish.

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Why? There's a difference between religion, ethnicity, nationality, and genetic ancestry. You're conflating these things. Someone can be Christian from a religious standpoint and Jewish from an ancestral standpoint.

To the person who asked about being "Russian Jewish": you have to think about nationality vs ethnicity. These things can overlap, but there are situations in which they are different. For example, someone can be Russian from a nationality standpoint (aka they are a Russian citizen) while being Jewish ethnically. In Russia, there is an ethnicity option for "Jewish" because they view it as different from Slavic or Tatar or the many other ethnicities in Russia. Most of those people are, from a genetic standpoint, part of the Ashkenazi Jewish group, but not all.

In any case, it's complicated, but the main point is that being Jewish is not simply a matter of religion. It can also (but doesn't have to be) a matter of one's ethnicity/culture/genetic background. [/quote]

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