Yes. Conflating “Ashkenazi” and “Jewish” is a recipe for confusion.
A person who holds a belief in direct contradiction with the Torah is not a Jew, though they may be Ashkenazi.
Failure to make the distinction leads to actual Jews like myself being blamed for anti-Judaic Communists who happen to be of Ashkenazi ethnicity also.
I’m not their human shield and refuse to let Judaism be misappropriated by them to impose that risk on me and other innocent and genuine Jews.
From erkelly: “So then, you consider a person Jewish only by belief and not by DNA?”
From thoughtomator: “Yes.”
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I am reading this thread with great interest.
From all I’ve read the children of a Jewish woman is considered Jewish....
Would your answer to erkelly mean you would qualify children borne of a Jewish woman to be non-Jewish until they have affirmed their Faith in the Jewish belief system?
Where would you stand on the question of if a child borne of a Jewish woman dies before affirming his or her Faith in the Jewish belief system?
In your belief system would the child be considered unfit to be declared a Jew?