2007-09-09 19:10:56 · 13 answers · asked by lakersforreal23@yahoo.com 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you follow the Jewish religion yes. If not no. Jewish is not an ethnicity or nationality, it is a religion. Most Jewish people are European or Middle Eastern in descent, likely Isreali, German, Russian, basically areas in Eastern and Northern Europe Judiasm is practiced.
2007-09-09 19:13:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dusk 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jew is by female inheritance, meaning if your mother is a Jew, it automatically make you a Jew. If your mother is not a Jew but your father is a Jew, it does not make you a Jew, not to mentioned if it is your great grandpa.
2007-09-10 02:40:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jew is a religion, Hebrew is a nationality, Semite is a race
2007-09-10 02:19:11 · answer #3 · answered by Commandant Marcos 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are consider Jew if you practice Jews tradition and their way of life.
2007-09-10 05:01:30 · answer #4 · answered by z_jepoh 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not unless YOU choose to be....
If your "great grandpa" was a catamite, would that make you one?
Nimadan
2007-09-10 02:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the strictest interpretation of Judaism says that your mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother ( etc) had to be Jewish for you to be Jewish.
in that case, no.
but other parts of Judaism might say you are.
2007-09-10 02:15:51 · answer #6 · answered by nickipettis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ethnically, it makes you part Jewish.
As for religion, that's up to you.
2007-09-10 02:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, it goes by your mother. If she was Jewish, then so are you. Thats the basic answer.
2007-09-10 02:14:47 · answer #8 · answered by JND 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no a religion is not passed down by name rather by your decision to follow it
2007-09-10 02:15:01 · answer #9 · answered by thinking 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your mother has to be Jewish, technically.
2007-09-10 02:18:13 · answer #10 · answered by robert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋