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Krauthammer: Turning up Jewish (everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise)
Townhall ^ | 09/25/06 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 09/25/2006 9:56:31 AM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 09/25/2006 10:02:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Strange doings in Virginia. George Allen, former governor, one-term senator, son of a famous football coach and in the midst of a heated battle for re-election, has just been outed as a Jew. An odd turn of events, given the fact that his having Jewish origins has nothing to do with anything in the campaign and that Allen himself was oblivious to the fact until his 83-year-old mother revealed to him last month the secret she had kept concealed for 60 years.


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To: elcid1970

Scientifically, that sounds stupid.


21 posted on 09/25/2006 11:02:25 AM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: juliej

If he's a Christian, there's no need to.

I hope all Jews reexamine their lives and convert to Christianity.


22 posted on 09/25/2006 11:04:19 AM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: elcid1970

For the purposes of making Aliyah (claiming Israeli citizenship) I believe this is true. The idea is that you know who your mother is, you can't really know who your father is.

I've been told that jewishness isn't a matter of blood, therefore there is no such thing as a "secular jew".

But for those who look for these things in people, I should think that blood is blood.

My father's people were Jewish. It was concealed from me.


23 posted on 09/25/2006 11:06:43 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small.)
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To: presidio9

My wife just returned from our nephew's Jewish wedding...does that count?


24 posted on 09/25/2006 11:08:01 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Never Forget!)
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To: streetpreacher

Maybe so, but matrilinear succession takes into account the fate of Jewish women raped by Gentiles during pogroms, wars, and other persecutions; their offspring are therefore Jewish.


25 posted on 09/25/2006 11:09:37 AM PDT by elcid1970 (atio)
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To: streetpreacher

and I hope all Christians consider converting to Judaism so I GUESS THAT MAKES US EVEN ALL AROUND!


26 posted on 09/25/2006 11:15:22 AM PDT by juliej
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To: elcid1970; ichabod1

Jewishness is blood and/or faith.

The name Jew is derived from the Israelite tribe of Judah; therefore there are actual descendants from said tribe. If you are an actual descendant, you have Judah's blood in your veins. In addition there are many converts to Judaism who probably have no genetic link to Judah whatsoever.


27 posted on 09/25/2006 11:15:36 AM PDT by agrace
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28 posted on 09/25/2006 11:21:36 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: meandog

A Jew bit my sister once.


29 posted on 09/25/2006 11:25:53 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Alouette
Alouette's Law: Nobody is Jewish until they have made some attempt to keep Sabbath and/or Kosher and/or the High Holidays.

That's rather restrictive, it implies there's a religous aspect to all this. If that were true, we wouldn't be talking about Allen in the first place.

30 posted on 09/25/2006 11:30:55 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: juliej

No, we were even after I posted. You remarked that Allen, as I understand it: a professing Christian, should convert to Judaism, as if his faith is not good enough. When Christians do that regarding Jews, they are savaged as bigots, racists, intolerant, etc.


31 posted on 09/25/2006 11:31:44 AM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: ichabod1; elcid1970

Allen would be barred because he's adopted another religion. elcid1970's great-grandfather wouldn't help. A single grandfather would be enough, presuming you hadn't adopted another religion, something easily lied about if one wanted to emigrate to Israel. For those who are not practicing Jews, those qualifications are based on what was necessary to be persecuted under the Nuremburg Laws.


32 posted on 09/25/2006 11:34:52 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: streetpreacher

Not at all. You don't always know who the father is, but you do always know who the mother is. ;)


33 posted on 09/25/2006 11:35:46 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: elcid1970
I'm confused. Any definitive opinion out there?

It depends on who's doing the identifying. The Nazis were rather more generous about regarding people as Jews.

34 posted on 09/25/2006 11:36:14 AM PDT by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: Alouette
Alouette's Law: Nobody is Jewish until they have made some attempt to keep Sabbath and/or Kosher and/or the High Holidays.

You might want to ammend that law. I keep Shabot, keep Kashrut, and keep all of the High Holy Days, so did rabbi Yeshua who I know to be the promised Mashiach. I'll bet you feel that last part excludes me, am I correct?

35 posted on 09/25/2006 11:36:50 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: river rat

I can explain that. The biggest single contributor to the defeat of the Nazis was Communist Russia. Thus many Jews of that generation came out of the war with an enormous loyalty towards the USSR.


36 posted on 09/25/2006 11:37:19 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: freedomson
I keep Shabot, keep Kashrut, and keep all of the High Holy Days, so did rabbi Yeshua who I know to be the promised Mashiach. I'll bet you feel that last part excludes me, am I correct?

If I don't believe that your Rabbi Yeshua fulfilled the prophecies the Mashiach promised in scripture, I'll bet you feel that excludes me from eternal salvation, am I correct?

37 posted on 09/25/2006 11:42:50 AM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 18-22)
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To: streetpreacher

Well, are you arrogant or bigoted or both? I suspect both since you want Jews to convert to your religion.


38 posted on 09/25/2006 11:44:32 AM PDT by juliej
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To: presidio9

The liberals are mad 'cause Allen wasn't wearing his star.


39 posted on 09/25/2006 11:44:58 AM PDT by this is my name not yours
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To: freedomson

I do not recognize that person as the Messiah. So there! I doubt your observe Jewish holidays. You sound like a phony.


40 posted on 09/25/2006 11:46:03 AM PDT by juliej
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