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Originally Posted by ellebud
Ladies, I love you!!! An fyi: Just because a girl is named Leah Rosenberg doesn't make her Jewish.
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Originally Posted by ms_gwyn
same with Alexander, Miller, Robinson.....all who will rabbis soon...
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I know. I was trying to point out how silly it is to make snap judgments about people because of their names. There's a family in my congregation where the mother is Jewish, the father is Asian, and the children (who were raised Jewish) have "Jewish" first names and their father's last name.
In Conservative and Orthodox (and I believe also Reconstructionist) Judaism, you're considered Jewish if your mother is Jewish or if you convert. So Molly O'Shaughnessy, a Christian from Ireland, could marry Ira Rosenberg, a Jew from the Bronx, and have a daughter named Leah - and Leah wouldn't be considered Jewish unless she herself converted.