Has anyone thought that the victims were shot for another reason and the location of the shooting could have been anywhere.?
Question for you Dutch, if my grand mother is Jewish would that not make my mother and I Jewish.? All daughters born in the family would be Jewish and only if my daughter married a Jew would not her sons then become Jews.?
What happens when a woman converts to the faith, is she less a Jew then those born into the blood.?
What ever happend to that small tribe somewhere in Africa that claimed to be Jewish direct descendants of one of the 12 tribes. I remember Israel fighting like mad to keep them out and denied they existed. Last I heard DNA tests were performed and proved the tribe was in fact Jewish.
Even with the facts some Israelis tried to block their entrance into Israel. Last I heard someone with money arranged an air lift and brought them home to Israel.
I do wonder how they are doing and if they have been excepted in their Home Land.
just one question?
You would be Jewish as your mother and grandmother are. If you left the faith I suppose we could call you jewish, as I do myself- if only to anger the nazis..., My grandfather didn't think of himself as a jew even if Stalin did. However, he maried into the faith as well however I was never able to ask him about it. I would never ask my Grandmother even before she started losing it. Some things you just don't bring up over coffee.
If you adopted the faith and went through all the hoops, then your children's children would be thought proper Jewish. Your children, if they kept the faith would be jews as well, but still not part of the the 'tribe' yet. It's even more complicated that I am explaining, and I'd suggest you dig into it if you are intrested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3FOn the African Jews: stolen off the web as they write better than I do-
Since Biblical times, the Jewish people have had close ties with Africa, beginning with Abraham's sojourns in Egypt, and later the Israelite captivity under the Pharaohs. Some Jewish communities in Africa are among the oldest in the world, dating back more than 2700 years. African Jews have ethnic and religious diversity and richness. African Jewish communities include:
Scattered African groups who have not maintained contact with the wider Jewish community from ancient times, but who assert descent from ancient Israel or other connections to Judaism. These include:
Groups who observe Jewish rituals, or rituals bearing recognizable resemblance to Judaism. Although there are a number of such groups, the majority of world Jewry recognize only the Beta Israel of Ethiopia as historically Jewish.
Groups such as the Lemba, many of whom practice Christianity but have preserved some rituals and customs believed to be Jewish in origin. This group has also been found to have genetic traits that other Jewish population groups possess, thereby bolstering their claims to Jewish ancestry.
Sephardi Jews and Mizraḥi Jews living in North Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt. The vast majority of them have emigrated, chiefly to Israel and France, with substantial numbers also emigrating to Brazil, Canada and the USA. Small but active communities remain in Morocco and Tunisia.
The South African Jews, who are mostly Ashkenazi Jews, descended mostly from pre-and post-Holocaust immigrant Lithuanian Jews.
Although not all African Jews are religious, most of the practices found in African Jewish communities are Orthodox.
To think that there are not bigots in Israel, of all flavors, is foolish.
