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Originally posted by honeychile
Don't worry about my significant others. The Jewish men I dated were/are (to my knowledge) Jewish in every way.
I do have a question, though: Is it true that, if a Jewish woman has a child, that child is considered Jewish, while a Jewish man can father a child to a non-Jewish woman and that child isn't considered Jewish? My cousins' father was Jewish, and their mother was told that she needed to convert to raise the children Jewish. I'm fairly certain that they were Conservative.
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A child is Jewish through birth only if the mother is. For that to be different, you have to create a new definition which you can always do in religion and certain Jewish sects have done so but the converts may not accepted as Jews by others and I'm pretty sure Israel doesn't recognize this process either (unless things have changed).
-Rudey
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