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To: philman_36;I am still Casey;Liberty Belle
Would a third generation grandparent with the name Jacobs qualify one as "Jewish"? DNA testing could find out with some certainty.

I'm not sure it would be particularly relevant. The only Jewish people who are important are those who self-identify as Jews and who participate in and perpetuate Jewish culture. Without those people, Judaism would cease to exist, even if lawyers named Sidney Finkelstein with curly hair, bald spots, and big noses, who had no knowledge of Judaism, remained.

And religious and cultural Jews are easy to pick out. I don't think any DNA testing will be needed.

No--that doesn't scare me. You know what scares me?

It's fairly obvious that the United States as a nation has fallen very far from God: much farther, in some cases, than other nations which God has been recorded as judging very harshly. Why has God's judgment been withheld in our case? Well, I don't pretend to know the mind of God, but he did promise to bless those who bless Israel--and, of course, to curse those who curse her. The US is right now the best friend Israel or the Jewish people have ever had. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

However, probably in large part because of that, the US is now the only remaining major concentration of Jews outside Israel. Prophecy foretells that the Jewish people as a whole will return to Ha-Aretz, or the Land. (Not necessarily every single last one of them, but the vast majority.) That's got to mean there will be a large Jewish exodus from the US to Israel at some point in the future.

Why would that be, do you think? Because life in Israel, in a tiny little country with the weapons of the entire Arab world trained on it, will somehow become more attractive than life in the US currently is? That'd be nice, but somehow I don't think so.

Somehow I think what's going to chase the Jews out of the US is widespread, rampant anti-Semitism. It's much more realistic to think that the US will at some point in the future go from being a nation that blesses Israel to a nation that curses Israel.

And that's what scares me.

76 posted on 01/07/2002 1:15:04 PM PST by Barak
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To: Barak
Somehow I think what's going to chase the Jews out of the US is widespread, rampant anti-Semitism.
Pretty much what I was getting at. "Just to be sure they're all gone"...or similarly "Find out who they all are to get rid of 'em and make sure they're all gone".
A "Don't want any taint left" mentality. An "undersirables" mindset. "Ship 'em back to Israel!"
Watching and waiting, expecting the unimaginable.
78 posted on 01/07/2002 2:00:06 PM PST by philman_36
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To: Barak
Do you think that the widespread, rampant anti-Semitism in the U.S. will come after the Rapture? I cannot foresee any other way that the Christians in this country would allow that. The Christians would have to be non-existant.
95 posted on 01/07/2002 5:55:23 PM PST by Aquamarine
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