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Jewish 19h

Can you be both Jewish and Christian if you’re raised as both, celebrated both religions’ holidays and studied both religions’ religious texts bc you have a Jewish mother and a Christian father? /gen

Anonymous 19h

Really it comes down to if you have religious faith or not. You can absolutely partake in religious traditions from both and be part of both culturally, but when it comes to having the religious values they teach, there are significant aspects in both which contradict each other making it illogical to believe in both, mainly being that the concept of jesus does not fit standard jewish teachings.

Anonymous 18h

you would be culturally and ethnically jewish and you could absolutely take traditions and inspiration from both traditions but i don’t think either religion’s mainstream would accept someone practicing both, especially because they contradict so much

Anonymous 19h

Jewish is an intrinsic trait, whereas Christianity is not. If your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish regardless of what faith you practice.

Anonymous 12h

what if same but jewish father and christian mother

Anonymous

#2 18h

That said, a Jew should not engage in avodah zara

Anonymous

#3 18h

if you believed that Christ is the messiah and the savior of humanity then you would not be religiously Jewish. i am not sure about this part but i think if you don’t believe Christ is the messiah and the savior of humanity than you are not religiously Christian

Anonymous

#4 12h

depends on the sect of judaism and how they feel about patrilineal jews. reform and conservative mostly would see no difference between the two situations. orthodox would mostly say that person would need to convert to be religiously jewish

Anonymous

#3 10h

Untrue. The official stance of Reform Judaism is if your father is Jewish you need to be raised Jewish in order to be a patrilineal Jew. Someone with a Jewish father raised Christian is not recognized as a Jew even by reform standards

Anonymous

#5 10h

reform judaism’s stance is you need to have one jewish parent and be raised jewish. the post says raised with both

Anonymous

#3 10h

Reform stance is that you need to have been raised specifically Jewish. Being raised equally Christian means the presumption of Jewish status is not established

Anonymous

#5 10h

ok ur probably right idk lol

Anonymous

#3 5h

I believe most conservative groups adhere to matrilineal descent

Anonymous

#2 47m

i think it’s mixed, conservatives usually will consider a patrilineal jew not halachically jewish but jewish in every other possible way and will want to include them as much as possible and do a faster smoother conversion if the person wants

Anonymous

#3 45m

i think a lot of conservative rabbis do a lot of outreach to patrilineal jews and want them to feel included. and others just don’t make a big deal out of it unless it has to do with like counting minyan or giving aliyahs. if a person is patrilineal and they want to be counted in a minyan or have an aliyah most rabbis would want them to convert to make it in accordance with halacha with but it would be a very different process than a person not raised jewish at all converting to judaism

Anonymous

#3 42m

i’ve heard stories of rabbis basically just being like “okay well let’s just get you in the mikveh asap so there’s no ambiguity”

Anonymous

#3 41m

one rabbi explained it to me as being like a legal technicality

Anonymous

#3 37m

if you have a jewish neshama then you have a jewish neshama