Am I considered Jewish at all ?

Question

I've been researching all sides of my fmaily history and found out that on my mother's side of the family going back 4 generations maternally there was a jewish great-great-great-great grandmother.
Also I have a couple other distant jewish relations but on my mother's paternal side.
My mother's brothers, grand uncles and grandfather alll looked very jewish btw. Olive skin, dark hair/ eyes and they were supposed to be just Scottish we thought.
Should I consider myself at all Jewish ?
Interestingly 5 of my 7 friends have all been jewish.
And if Im interested in dating a Jewish guy would this matter to him ?

Thanks

Answer 1

I don't know. I feel that if you want to be Jewish you should be able to, but the religious can be very obstructive when they choose to be.
I'm not sure how Judaism operates. I'm partly Jewish too. My grandmother was a Jew and my grandfather Catholic, so their children were brought up Catholic. (Talk about out of the frying-pan into the fire. I think both religions use guilt to make people behave "right" (or at least the way their clergy think they should)
If you want to be Jewish go and see a Rabbi and talk it over with him or her.

Answer 2

As I understand it, according to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish ethnicity is inherited through the mother, so than if your mother was Jewish, you are Jewish, even if you are not religious. I think Reform Judaism allows inheritance through the father as well. If you are not Jewish and wish to become Jewish, you can go through a conversion process.
I imagine that, at least in the US, any Jew who really wants a Jewish partner would be a religious Jew, not just an ethnic Jew, and would want a religious Jewish partner. But you would have to ask the guy.

Answer 3

Umm - there are people who study Jewish law, life, love, God and human behavior for years. They are called Rabbis. One of them would be a better person to ask than almost anyone here, unless he signs his name "Rabbi_Meyers" and isn't lying. Look up a synagogue in your phone book, make an appointment, go in and talk.

Answer 4

You have so little Jewish Blood that it makes no difference one way or another.

Answer 5

i thought being jewish had to do with your religion? beats the heck out of me...

Answer 6

No.