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A person is Jewish if: their mother is Jewish or they convert to the Jewish religion. If a person doesn't fall into one of these two groups they are not Jewish. Jews are part of the religion Judaism, but Jews are also a family and a people. The Jewish homeland is Israel.

If a person is born to a Jewish mother, then that person remains Jewish *unless* they join another religion. At that point, they are an apostate, an ex- Jew, and cannot call themselves Jewish any longer.

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The word Jew (Hebrew: Yehudi) is used in a number of ways, but specifically refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes.

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