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| | Who is a Jew? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | As Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, a religion, an ethnicity, and a culture, the definition of who is a Jew may vary, depending on whether a religious, sociological, or national approach to identity is used. | | | This contrasts to the traditional view that Jews are a people, not merely followers of a religion, and that those who adopt the beliefs of another religion are still seen as Jews, though apostates. | | | The term sometimes can refer exclusively to Jews who, for whatever reasons, do not practice the religion of Judaism, or who are so casual in their connection to that religion as to be effectively secular. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew
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| | Jew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jews (Hebrew: יהודים, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion. | | | Jews descend mostly from the ancient Israelites (also known as Hebrews), who settled in the Land of Israel. | | | Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, an ethnicity, a religion, and a culture, making the definition of who is a Jew vary slightly depending on whether a religious or national approach to identity is used. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
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| | Who is a jew |
| | By Their definition of who is a Jew, (born of a Jewish mother, not converted to another religion) King David would not be Jewish. | | | We are Torah observant, Shabbat-keeping, kosher-eating Messianic Jews who believe that the prophecies contained in the Hebrew Scriptures were fulfilled by Yeshua Ha Maschiach (Salvation from the "anointed one" in Hebrew and "Jesus" in English). | | | Part of the role that Messianic Jews will play in the current era is to "be a light to the Gentiles", to teach them, with love, their rich Jewish heritage, to teach them to embrace Torah, Shabbat and the feasts of the G-d of Israel. |
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http://www.bethhillel.com/whoisajew.htm
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| | Who is a Jew? |
| | In common speech, the word "Jew" is used to refer to all of the physical and spiritual descendants of Jacob/Israel, as well as to the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac and their wives, and the word "Judaism" is used to refer to their beliefs. | | | Following the Brother Daniel case, a new regulation was adopted stating that individuals registered as Jews for the "nationality" and ‘religion" section of their identity cards must be Jews according to halacha and they must not practice another religion. | | | The word "Jew" (in Hebrew, "Yehudi") is derived from the name Judah, which was the name of one of Jacob's twelve sons. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/whojew1.html
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| | HaDavar Online:Who is a Jew? |
| | Even though a Jew undergoes the rites of admission to another religious faith and formally renounces the Jewish religion he remains -as far as the halakhah is concerned-a Jew, albeit a sinner (Sanh. | | | What is the biblical definition of "Who is a Jew?" When you study the Bible, you discover that God entered into an unconditional, eternal, covenant relationship with Abraham (Gen. 12, 13, 15, 17). | | | A precise definition of "Who is a Jew?" is important because the number one (usually unspoken) reason we will hesitate to accept the Gospel is the thought, "I do not want to stop being Jewish. |
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http://www.hadavar.org/whoisajew-antimissionary
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| | Who is a Jew, according to the Torah? |
| | Lavan was the son of Besu-el, who was the son of Nachor. | | | Who is this "he," and who is this "son?" | | | In fact, Rebecca, Lavan's sister, told Eliezer "I am the daughter of Besu-el, who was the son of Milkah the wife of Nachor" (Genesis 24:24). |
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http://www.beingjewish.com/identity/whoisajew.html
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| | Who is a Jew |
| | Man defines a Jew as one who submits to the rabbis of Judaism or the priests of Levi who reject Jesus Christ. | | | He said that a Jew was one who had the circumcision of the heart—the sign of the New Covenant. | | | The “apparent” Jews laid claim to their tribal status and covenant status with God by means of physical circumcision. |
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http://www.gods-kingdom.org/who_is_a_jew.htm
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| | Who is a Jew? |
| | For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, who were not Jewish by physical birth, were called 'uncircumcised' and 'gentiles' by those who defined their Jewishness merely in terms of physical circumcision by human hands. | | | For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, who were not Jewish by physical birth, were called "uncircumcised" and "gentiles" by those who defined their Jewishness merely in terms of physical circumcision by human hands. | | | Yet for God to have made a covenant with them, He obviously counted them as part of the People of Israel, even though the man Israel was not yet born and the family of Israel not yet in historical existence. |
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http://www.psalmsinger.org/wiaj.htm
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| | Who Is A Jew? |
| | There are of course many who will say that this is an exercise in futility for if, for no other reason than that 'the whole world knows who the Jews are: they are the chosen people of God to whom we Christians owe so much as the originators of "our" religion'. | | | However, to return to the main theme of this article, 'Who is the Jew?', it must be very apparent that we are not dealing with a specific race of people but rather with a population of a specific country which gave its name to both a people and a religion which they formulated. | | | Again, the Bible is completely silent about any people known as 'the Jews', and to me, at any rate, it is rather strange that having endowed his people with covenant promises, which have nothing to do with religion as such, he should suddenly provide a national constitution for a religious and not a national group. |
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http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/jew.html
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| | Israel - The "Who Is a Jew?" Controversy |
| | Before the modern era, one was a Jew (in the eyes of Jews and gentiles alike) by religious criteria; to renounce the religion meant renouncing one's membership in the community. | | | It is in regard to the principles of the divinity and immutability of halakah that Orthodoxy opposes Conservative and Reform Judaism. | | | Although such cases arouse the sympathy of Orthodox Jews, the principle followed is that halakah, being divine and eternal, cannot be modified. |
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http://countrystudies.us/israel/46.htm
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| | Commentary Magazine - Who Is a Jew |
| | ...What Jews on the contrary have to do, in Sartre's judgment, is to assume the risks and responsibilities of their common situation, to refuse to disguise the situation or to flee from it... | | | ...The Jews survived the shipwreck of this civilization, but their survival was a kind of life-indeath... | | | ...Since the Jews after the destruction of the Second Temple had become purely a diaspora people, and had survived as such to the present day, they were an example and a model for the future... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V85I6P27-1.htm
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| | Who is a Jew?...Again |
| | Orthodox Jews (defined as those who are Torah-observant) believe that such Conservative and Reform rabbis don't teach authentic Judaism and aren't capable of guiding a non-Jew into the laws of the Covenant. | | | There are some Conservative rabbis who make a great effort to teach their congregants the laws and rituals of Judaism. | | | So, they misinform their congregants that the Orthodox in Israel are saying that they, the congregants in America, are not Jews. |
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http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/1997/oct/win3.htm
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| | Who is a Jew? |
| | This is true regardless of who the father is, and weather or not, and irregardless of weather the Jewish mother practiced another religion. | | | The task of defining- "Who is a Jew" was a simple one for me to complete.I sought out sources that would offer me the answer by referring to what G-d says in the Jewish bible. | | | There is absolutely nothing he can do to remove his status as a Jew, even if he forsakes Judaism and were to practice other religions. |
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http://messiahpage.com/htmldocs/whojew.html
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| | Jesus a Jew? Says Who? |
| | Further, Jesus himself was a Jew, a rabbi, spoke Hebrew, used well-known rabbinic methods of teaching, and perhaps most importantly, drew largely on the Scriptures and oral traditions of his day in his teaching. | | | Jesus was constantly referring back to the Scriptures and to the oral traditions of rabbis who had preceded him or who were his contemporaries. | | | Everybody knows he was conceived of the Holy Spirit and is therefore God and not a Jew. |
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http://webbpage.topcities.com/Yavo/1_3_BlizBivin_JesusJew.html
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| | 'Who is a Jew' Matters in Israel |
| | Israel's founders, however, repeatedly said that Israel is not primarily a haven for refugees, but rather a fulfillment of God's promise to all Jews. | | | They did not see themselves as exiled from the "Promised Land" and they did not seek a "return," despite a major effort to get them to think that this was their destiny. | | | The debate is not just a matter of obscure religious doctrine. |
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http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0390/9003010.htm
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| | International Federation: Who is a Jew? |
| | The children and spouses of intermarriage who desire to be part of the Jewish people must not be cast aside because they do not have Jewish mothers and do not wish to undergo religious conversion. | | | We challenge the assumption that the Jews are primarily or exclusively a religious community and that religious convictions or behavior are essential to full membership in the Jewish people. | | | At stake also is the Jewish identity of thousands of men and women, in Israel and in other countries of the world, who want to be Jewish, but who are rejected by the narrow legalism of traditional religious authorities. |
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http://www.shj.org/whois.htm
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| | FORWARD : News |
| | JERUSALEM &; The stage was set this week for a showdown between the Sharon government, the Chief Rabbinate and the Reform and Conservative movements as the long-simmering debate over "who is a Jew" threatened to boil over once again, five years after it was thought to have been laid to rest. | | | Poraz's proposal was scaled back from an earlier plan to separate citizenship from religion entirely and grant it on the basis of secular criteria. | | | "It's unnecessary — people who run this program are Orthodox Jews; they firmly believe that this falls within the range of Orthodox practice and beliefs, and there is no reason it shouldn't be possible for elements in the Orthodox community to be supportive of this and bring it about." |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.07.04/news2.html
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| | Rabbi Sha’ul (Paul) explains in his letter to the Roman congregation (Romans 11) and in his letter to the congregation in Ephesus (Ephesians 2 and 3) that Gentiles (pagans) who turn to Adonai through Yeshua, not only are grafted into Israel, but have full citizenship in the house of Israel. | | | The letter Yochanan (John) wrote to the seven congregations (Revelation) expresses this fact in chapter 7: Twelve Tribes of Israel are listed (see verses 4-8) totaling 12,000 from each tribe signifying the remnant of all of Israel. | | | We recognize that through the ages Jewish men and women have married non-Jewish spouses and that there are thousands of men and women who may be of Jewish ancestry. |
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http://www.kehilat.org/articles/tc/ancestry.asp
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| | Who Is A Jew? |
| | One has to come to the conclusion that we will also be Israel and be part of the New Jerusalem afterthe 1000 year Millennium, by circumcision of the heart from a spiritual point of view, not physical. | | | In God's eyes Israel is not a place but His people separated for His purpose. | | | For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son." |
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http://bible-studies.cephasministry.com/whoisajew.html
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| | Question 10.10: Who is a Jew? |
| | (pippik means navel, a/k/a 'belly button') For thousands of years the answer was simply someone born of a Jewish mother, or someone who undertook a conversion, which involved accepting the yoke of the commandments, an immersion in a mikveh [ritual bath], and for men, circumcision, the latter two in the presense of witnesses. | | | Maybe you belong in yeshiva!) Nineteenth century Samaritan massacres by Islamic zealots were stopped when they got official word that Samaritans are Jews, i.e., people of the book. | | | Another bit of Orthodox "flexibility" comes regarding Conservative conversions. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/judaism/FAQ/05-Worship/section-34.html
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| | Who Is a Jew? |
| | A number of new immigrants to Israel identify with the Reform and Conservative movements. | | | Then, when I am asked to write letters in support of foreign aid to Israel and send those letters to my Congressman and both my Senators — all of whom are Jewish — I will say: "Ask the Orthodox rabbis to write. | | | Note: My Web pages are best viewed with style sheets enabled. |
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http://www.vcnet.com/~rossde/editorials/edtl_whoJew.html
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| | Who is a Jew? |
| | Therefore, produce pri tov l'teshuva (fruit worthy of repentance), and do not begin to presume within yourselves, saying, We have the zechut Avot (merit of the Fathers) of Avraham Avinu, for, I say to you, that Hashem is able from these avanim (stones) to raise up banim to Avraham Avinu. | | | For when they were not yet born nor had they done anything tov or rah, in order that the etzah (wisdom) of the tochnit Hashem (purposeful and willed plan of G-d--Ro 8:28) should stand in terms of bechirah (divine election, selection, choosing), | | | If I can use a figure of speech, the promise is to the "Jacob's" who have not only a Jewish mother but also saving faith (Ro 9:6- |
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http://www.afii.org/whoisajew.htm
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| | Prophetic understanding - Who is considered a Jew? |
| | Jesus Revealed in the Shape of the Earth | | | Prophetic understanding - Who is considered a Jew? | | | Judah and Israel Not Yet United after being Separated in 722 BC Who is considered a Jew? |
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http://www.vinesbranch.com/view?pageID=37580
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| | Or Shalom - Who is a Jew? |
| | During the year 5756 (1995-96) Or Shalom undertook to study and resolve for itself part of the question "Who is a Jew?" Specifically, we addressed the question of whether we would consider as Jewish for ritual purposes any child of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother | | | The Board of Or Shalom struck a Va’ad to lead the community in study and debate on the issue, and to give a recommendation for action. | | | POLICY OF THE BOARD adopted in 1998 following consideration of the above materials |
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http://www.orshalom.ca/patlin.html
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