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Originally posted by AOII_LB93
Now not to be totally ignorant and completely hijack the thread, but I'm curious, because I've know about the whole mom being Jewish thus children are Jewish as well.....so if my mom was Jewish, then automatically I would be Jewish even if I didn't want to be? Isn't religion more about your faith and less about being born into it? I guess I just wonder how that works because couldn't I choose not to be Jewish then and be Buddhist or Christian? Just wondering.
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Someone is born Jewish and doesn't hold the faith or do anything and later on decides to become observant. He is and was a Jew.
Someone is not born Jewish and is Catholic until they decide they like Judaism. They are not a Jew until they convert.
Judaism isn't just a religion...that's probably pretty difficult.
The liberal Reform movements might recognize someone whose father was Jewish and not mother but that isn't accepted by a lot of other movements.
So the answer is yes and no.
-Rudey