tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post3845382363023917586..comments2024-03-27T08:39:28.807-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: Very Few Jews Remain In Europe (For Obvious Reasons)Andrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-48391539478743215952013-05-06T15:11:03.415-06:002013-05-06T15:11:03.415-06:00If you have been raised as a Christian, never circ...If you have been raised as a Christian, never circumcized, never taught the Torah, never lived any element of your Jewish heritage, are you really, in any meaningful sense, a Jew?<br /><br />The right definition of who is a Jew, like any other definition, depends upon the purpose to which you want to use the information gathered with that definition. I can't think of many purposes for which it is useful to include anyone with Jewish ancestry as a Jew, but I don't deny that there might be legitimate reasons for making such a distinction.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-42391071709864464582013-05-03T18:13:29.296-06:002013-05-03T18:13:29.296-06:00There are many Europeans who are Jews but their pa...There are many Europeans who are Jews but their parents and grandparents have kept this a secret from them. To wit: the Hungarian anti-Semitic political leader whose grandmother finally informed him that she spent time in Auschwitz and that he is a Jew. There an awful lot of younger generation Hungarians who may or may not discover over the course of their lives that they are actually Jews. With the anti-Semitism always bubbling up, many people have chosen to withhold information from their children.<br /><br />No doubt in many other parts of the world, like in Brazil for example, due to anti-Semitism, children grow up not knowing of their backgrounds. <br /><br />I think the population statistics include only those who identify themselves as being Jews. Gabriella Kadarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18294468426599703416noreply@blogger.com