I just found out I am part jewish!
I already knew I was German/Scottish/Swedish/English/Cherokee. Now I can add Jewish to that list! My aunt was involved in a genetics test searching for Jewish origins in people and discovered that she has DNA markers of a jewish ancestor.
Way cool!
I'm part of god's chosen people, ay.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
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Were there any signs previously? Were you afraid of ovens or have a real taste for bagels?
I'm a bookworm. I guess that should have been a sign.
How can anyone be part jewish? judaism is a belief system not an ethnicity.
Or is it both?
I've always thought of being a "jew" as being an ethnicity. I don't think an Aryan can claim to be a Jew if he/she converted to judaism. Nor would a jewish person stop being a jew if they turned into an atheist.
I haven't read anything about the Nazis asking anybody what their religious beliefs were before they sent them to the camps.
Also I don't think a DNA test can tell you what your ancestor's religious beliefs were. But hey, wouldn't that be interesting?
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
I usually just consider myself to be a European mutt. I have no culture, lol.
Are you now obliged to get a partial circumcision?
According to that I'm fully jewish.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
I was under the impression that Jewishness was passed down through the female line. The funny thing with dna and ancestry is that we all are a hodge podge. I have persuaded my dad to do the genealogy thing and at one point it looked as if we had "Welsh blood" in the family which got a lot of laughs and sheep jokes but thankfully we weren't At the moment we can trace some of our ancestors back to about 1610.
I suspect if I had a dna analysis done I'd resemeble a "Bertie Basset" i.e Allsorts! (liquorice allsort - sweet)
It's both.
Yeah, I've read that too. The thing is that this DNA test tested my aunt's mitochondria DNA. So I have jewish heritage through the maternal line.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci