[jjotto]

hehe

Lots of FReepers believe they can spot-the-Jew by someone’s last name, magically transforming Germans and other Europeans into Jews. Not even Sarah Palin and Pope John Paul II are spared.

Given the intermarriage rate in the USA, someone with even a last name like Cohen or Levi is only about 50% likely to be Jewish.

[Graybeard58]

First names are not necessarily indicative either, such as, Abraham Lincoln.

My wife's grand mother's maiden name was Cohen, no, she wasn't Jewish either.

I'm presently reading in the Torah (I'm not Jewish either).

I got interested recently when someone posted a picture with a caption that "the Hebrews came out of Egypt armed", this doesn't jibe with the Old Testament version, so like a good little Baptist boy, I started studying to learn more.

It would be helpful if I could read the Hebrew text in the original language but I can't.