“Many self-proclaimed Jews are not Jews.”
You mean like Rosenstein, Weinstein, Finestein, Schumer? So tell us, how does something that is conferred by birth, get “unproclaimed?
Somewhere back there there was a shiksa in the maternal line.
(That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!)
In seriousness, yes, they may be members of my Tribe,but they have rejected all the tenents and beliefs such that they may as well not be.