Negotiating Jewishness through genetic testing in the State of Israel
The Israeli State recently announced that it may begin to use genetic tests to determine whether potential immigrants are Jewish or not. This development would demand a rethinking of Israeli law on the issue of the definition of Jewishness.
just my thought .. being a jew .. is it a religion or a genetic marker from a past time. i thought anyone could convert .
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It used to be a religion, but as time went on, it kinda morphed into an ethnicity. Jewishness was defined by commitment to Talmudic Judaism, but then it started being defined by if your ancestors practiced Judaism. The same thing happened with the Copts, a sect of Christianity which became an ethnic group.
