And by most Jewish law you gain your Jewishness from your mother's side, and your father is entirely irrelevant to the picture.
Its one of the reasons why Jews are the way they are, because they are one of the only practicing matrilineal cultures (with all that brings) that escaped the stone age and they've been that way for a long time.
When have laws ever stopped Jews? We're talking about the same people that invented the eruv and the kosher switch just to create loopholes around rules they themselves wrote.
With DNA testing and better record-keeping, even a 1/1024th Jew from his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's side gets to join in the pity party.
By their religious texts, its there and I haven't seen any kvetching to change that. Considering how much they worship their women in the culture, I doubt most even have problem with it either.
Most Jews we have issues with are not religious in any form however, and just use the identity however they wish. No one has probably ever questioned them on it, because " actually practicing" Jews are basically a non-entity outside of NYC and a few other metropolises. Even those who appear to are of the level of "Christians" who go to Church on Christmas, wear a cross while getting railed, and use "Jesus meant free food" level thoughts.
So if some 1/1024th loser wanted to claim it, and had enough nose to get away with it, he could Talcum X for probably a long time.
Gonna quibble on the stone age bit. I don't know if it's a 1500 year old rabbinical invention or a tradition from the Khazars, but it's not "Jewish", meaning the tribe of Judah. Israelites were profoundly, fundamentally patriarchal.
Fair, I threw that in colloquially without much thought, but its not quite stone age.
Looking it up, without a deep knowledge of the Hebrew Bible itself, it seems to have its most direct calling out as an issue in the Book of Ezra which is from around 500-450 BC though they claim it also comes from Genesis itself with one of Abraham's wives being the Jewish line and the other not.
Now, adherence to it might be less spotty as much of the reading I did brought up many times in the Bible where its not adhered to and they just waved it off as "the conversion was obviously implied." Which means its not blood lineage sometimes, but it wouldn't be Jews without dancing around their own rules nonsensically.
The Old Testament itself is very explicitly patralinneal. Time after time it gives long lists of fathers and the sons they begat, generally not bothering to mention the womenfolk. And Abraham had only one wife and one legitimate son. The other, illegitimate son came from his wife's maid. Maybe rabbinic tradition says otherwise, but that's just talmudic fanfiction.
If you read into their "proof" for the belief its a lot of stuff that is "its implied" from the text. Even the Ezra one, which is the only real direct one, they say that the way he says it means its obviously been in practice for far longer before it was written.
So it sounds like some oral tradition they had that they added to their religion and then they went back to pull a bunch of proof out of places it wasn't.
Like all things, its very Jewy and nonsensical. I'd say its their religion to do what they want with, but they don't follow it in any form that makes sense either.
And by most Jewish law you gain your Jewishness from your mother's side, and your father is entirely irrelevant to the picture.
Its one of the reasons why Jews are the way they are, because they are one of the only practicing matrilineal cultures (with all that brings) that escaped the stone age and they've been that way for a long time.
When have laws ever stopped Jews? We're talking about the same people that invented the eruv and the kosher switch just to create loopholes around rules they themselves wrote.
With DNA testing and better record-keeping, even a 1/1024th Jew from his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's side gets to join in the pity party.
By their religious texts, its there and I haven't seen any kvetching to change that. Considering how much they worship their women in the culture, I doubt most even have problem with it either.
Most Jews we have issues with are not religious in any form however, and just use the identity however they wish. No one has probably ever questioned them on it, because " actually practicing" Jews are basically a non-entity outside of NYC and a few other metropolises. Even those who appear to are of the level of "Christians" who go to Church on Christmas, wear a cross while getting railed, and use "Jesus meant free food" level thoughts.
So if some 1/1024th loser wanted to claim it, and had enough nose to get away with it, he could Talcum X for probably a long time.
Per the OT it's the eleventh generation (minimum) meaning one drop or 1/4096
Gonna quibble on the stone age bit. I don't know if it's a 1500 year old rabbinical invention or a tradition from the Khazars, but it's not "Jewish", meaning the tribe of Judah. Israelites were profoundly, fundamentally patriarchal.
Fair, I threw that in colloquially without much thought, but its not quite stone age.
Looking it up, without a deep knowledge of the Hebrew Bible itself, it seems to have its most direct calling out as an issue in the Book of Ezra which is from around 500-450 BC though they claim it also comes from Genesis itself with one of Abraham's wives being the Jewish line and the other not.
Now, adherence to it might be less spotty as much of the reading I did brought up many times in the Bible where its not adhered to and they just waved it off as "the conversion was obviously implied." Which means its not blood lineage sometimes, but it wouldn't be Jews without dancing around their own rules nonsensically.
The Old Testament itself is very explicitly patralinneal. Time after time it gives long lists of fathers and the sons they begat, generally not bothering to mention the womenfolk. And Abraham had only one wife and one legitimate son. The other, illegitimate son came from his wife's maid. Maybe rabbinic tradition says otherwise, but that's just talmudic fanfiction.
If you read into their "proof" for the belief its a lot of stuff that is "its implied" from the text. Even the Ezra one, which is the only real direct one, they say that the way he says it means its obviously been in practice for far longer before it was written.
So it sounds like some oral tradition they had that they added to their religion and then they went back to pull a bunch of proof out of places it wasn't.
Like all things, its very Jewy and nonsensical. I'd say its their religion to do what they want with, but they don't follow it in any form that makes sense either.