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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]do you consider a person with one jewish parent or grandparent a jew?[/quote]

Only on the mother's side.  i.e. if its your mother or your mother's mother.  I dont believe people with only a Jewish father are Jewish. [/quote]

Did you get your mitochondrial DNA checked to see if you indeed have a maternal Jewish line? If you did check it and it said that you maternal line was say Polish (non Jewish) as for many Jews from Europe (not assuming that you are of European lineage), would you then consider yourself to be less Jewish?[/quote]

Only Nazis would think that there is "Jewish" and "non-Jewish" DNA. If you are a practicing Jew (convert) you are Jewish and so are your children. Doesn't matter if your DNA is closer to that of most Jews today or closer to that of most (fill in the blank) today.[/quote]

OP here - the above wasnt me.

There is definitely an element of faith involved, however it goes through the mother bc it is much easier to trace who the mother is than who the father is. If my mother said she was jewish and her mother is jewish and we have no reason to doubt them, then we assume they are jewish. Like a benefit of the doubt situation.[/quote]

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