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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is being raised Christian. Her dad gets upset when I say she isn't Jewish. Yet, he says Judaism is not a race. Can one be a half-Jew?[/quote] By Jewish law and tradition no. Someone with a Jewish mother is Jewish. Someone with only a Jewish father is not, unless the child converts. According to Reform, the child of a Jewish father and unconverted gentile mother may be Jewish, but only if they are raised within the Jewish religion. OTOH many ordinary Jewish people do use the term "half Jew" or at least they did when I was growing up. That was a time when Jewishness as secular identity was more important than today. I know there are young people today who call themselves culturally Jewish, but in those days there were Jewish agnostics who had grown up in Yiddish speaking homes, and who had a much greater sense of cultural distinctiveness than almost any American Jews today. [/quote]
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