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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow! Is this really what you think of Jews? That they all get plastic surgery because they think they look ethnic? I can guaranty you that there are more non-Jews who get plastic surgery because hey hate the way they look. Jews do not claim to be superior. Christians do. [b]If Jews continue to diversify--marry out of their religion-- there won't be many Jews left in this world.[/b] Jews are very accepting of other races, religions and cultures. Always have been and always will be. Jews played a huge role in the civil rights movement, for example. I grew up as a Jew among a neighborhood of Catholics, who referred to me as "you people." I don't have a particular desire to hang out with people who refer to me and others in my religion as "you people." Perhaps this question about diversifying should be asked of Christians and Catholics.

You realize that Jews do not have the market cornered on this phenomenon, right.  In fact, it has been commented on in th emain stream press that Blonde hair (real, not bleached) will likely become exceedingly rare and almost extinct within a few generations if the marriage trends continue as they are.  Does that mean no non-blonde should be allowed to marry a real blonde?

Of course not because that would be labled a racist and elitist policy.  So why is it any different for Jews?

Second pont: the Jews decided that only those children born to Jewish WOMEN are hereditarily Jewish.  So, change the rule.  Then you wont have to worry so much.[/quote]

The rule was changed. It used to be patrilineal descent. [/quote]

Since the Jews accepted the laws of the torah, the rule has always been matrilineal decent.  If you are referring to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as the time of patrilineal decent, althought they are considered the forefathers of the Jewish nation, the Jews did not actually become a nation until they received the Torah at Mt. Sinai, so their situation does not dictate how the religion defines Jews.

According to traditional Jewish law, a Jew is someone who is born to a Jewish mother or who converts through the proper methods. Recently, Reform (and maybe Reconstructionist?) Judaism has permitted patrilineal descent as a valid manner of defining a Jew.[/quote]

The matrilineal descent thing was about making sure at least one parent was Jewish.  If Dad said it was his kid, you could never be sure.  If Mom said so, it was a gimme.  There's nothing mystical about mom v. dad in Jewish tradition.  It was just practical in an era when (1) descent really mattered, (2) men fucked around as a matter of course, and (3) paternity testing was rather primitive.[/quote]

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