Jews: Can you get a explanation?

Its a little bit like this.

I was born in the UK - to mixed parentage - Hungarian, Jewish, Roma and English and Irish. I am a UK citizen but I can go to say Spain - live there - become a Spanish citizen - act, walk, talk like a spaniard - but regardless of where I now call home - my ethnicity - my blood line - my heritage doesnt change.. but if i leave my home country and become a citizen of another -then i can no longer call my self a member of my home country -and i loose certain rights and privilages

there are differances of course- but its roughly the same idea...

Its the same for jewish people- nothing can change a jewish persons heritage -the family he was born into - but there are qualifications that a person needs in order to call themselves a member of the JEWISH FAITH.

When a person converts - his dna doesnt change -but he is considered as a jew who is left judaism - and he has none of the rights accorded to a jewish person - ie - getting married in a synagogue - reading torah etc and any children born to that person would also not be considered jewish while that person is outside of the faith..

as for what god consideres them - who knows - it is not for us to judge or contemplate or speculate on what is in the mind of God - we have the torah - gods way for us - and the torah says that a jew outside of judaism - who has converted out - or who is seen doing things considered contrary to judaism - ie - worshiping idols - is not a jew.

No...once a Jew has completed a formal conversion to another religion, from that point on, any children that person has is not considered Jewish; they are considered whatever religion the mother has converted to. And the word Hebrew is a misnomer. Hebrew is the language of Judaism; but Jews are called Jews, not Hebrews.

And to correct one of these posts for about the 50 millionth time - Jews are NOT A RACE! Jews belong to one of the four recognized races - Caucasian, Mongoloid, N e g roid, and another one that I can't remember the name of but describes Australian Aborigines. Can one convert from being Caucasian to being Mongoloid? Of course not! So that's why Jews are not a race. You can convert to Judaism.

Genetics isn't the issue, it's nationality. Jews aren't a race, but a nation. The laws of the nation say that a woman who is a citizen of that nation bears children who have citizen status. Others may obtain citizenship through the court.

As to what happens with those who lose their citizenship: Picture a king who has pronounced that his subjects (with peerage) have committed treason so they and any yet unborn descendants are banished from the kingdom. Their lands are forfeit along with their title. They may never return. Their children may come back if they swear allegiance to the king but their family name has been cut off and they are new citizens without any tie to the past just as any other who gains citizenship through the court.

They will still be of Hebrew descent, however they didnt follow the rules of the Torah/keep the Shabbat....so screw them.

answer: once someone converts to another religion, they are apostates - no longer part of their original religion. They break the line.

They break the line.

God loves everyone. Even Me, a half jewish Christian gay dog.

being Jewish is not only cultural, but racial. Just as a black man can not stop being black, a Jewish man can not stop being Jewish.

how do you know god's a he? he could be a she...or neither...or both