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What is the legal definition of a Jew?
Jewish law specifies that a Jew is a person who was born to a Jewish woman or who has converted to Judaism as per Jewish law.
Can you have a Jew be cremated?
By Jewish law, no.
If your father is a Jew are you really Jewish?
According to Jewish law, a person who is born to a Jewish woman or who converts according to Jewish law, is a Jew. If your father is Jewish but your mother is not, Jewish law does not consider you to be a Jew unless you convert. The reform movement accepts children born to a Jewish man and non-Jewish woman as Jews if they are raised as Jews.
Does the word Jew pertain to a person of Jewish descent?
A person who is born to a Jewish woman or who halachicly (following Jewish law) converts to Judaism is a Jew.
Is Casey Abrams Jewish?
According to Jewish law he is not You only a Jew if your mother is a Jew The father has nothing to do with it In Casey's case his dad's Jewish and his mom is gentile
What Jew strictly followed Jewish law?
Jews who strictly observe Jewish law are referred to as Orthodox Jews.
What is Drake's religion?
Drake is a Jew, because if one is Jewish if his/her mother is Jewish, according to Jewish law.
Can a Jew get married with his neace?
No, that is a forbidden relationship according to Jewish law.
What is the Jewish law of return?
Israel's law of return guarantees citizenship to all Jews. (There are issues and debates about the definition of who is a Jew, and how you prove you are Jewish.)
What is a true Jew?
Someone who adheres to all the laws in the Torah and Talmud ___________ In Judaism we don't have a concept of "true Jew". Any person who is born to a Jewish mother or who converts to Judaism according to Jewish law, is a Jew.
Why someone might consider themselves to be Jewish when they aren't religious?
In Jewish law, a person is considered to be a Jew if his mother was Jewish. Whether or not an individual Jew observes the laws and traditions of Judaism is a matter for his own conscience, and doesn't affect his legal identity under the law.
What are Jewish membership requirements?
In order for a person to be a Jew they have to either be born to a Jewish woman or convert to Judaism following halacha (Jewish law).
