If you are born in Jerusalem are you automatically of the Jewish faith?
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No, u should be able to choise your own faith!
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Jesus was both Jewish AND Israeli.
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Greetings in Salaam, Peace, & Shalom from Jesus Land,\n\nAfter more than two thousand years, Christian families are still living, witnessing, & worshiping in the land where Jesus Christ was born, lived, died, & was resurrected. We are NOT immigrants. We are NOT converts from Judaism or Islam. We are the descendents of the original indigenous Christians who first believed in our Lord Jesus Christ. We live in Nazareth, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem, & other places in the Biblical Palestine, Israel, & Jordan. We are Arab Palestinian Christians (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, & others). Together, we comprise the MOTHER CHURCH, the Church of Jerusalem. Zion remains the Mother of All the Churches, & Urushalim the Holy City.\n\nHave you ever wondered what happened to the descendants of the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ and the descendants of other Jews, Arabs, Canaanites, Greeks, Philistines, Romans, and Samaritans・who accepted the Messiah when He was with them in the flesh? Today, their direct descendants number around a million. These are the Palestinian Christians who still maintain the faith and tradition.\n\nGod bless Palestine
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That is in the New Testament, which is irrelevant. Jews determine who is a Jew, not the Jewish wannabees.
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martian645, God was not spelled out as those who are Jewish show respect for the Almighty by not spelling out His name fully.  As for the question at hand, gratvol, you are Jewish, are you not?  You are of God's chosen people.  I'm pretty sure your prayers are heard and you will be forgiven for whatever sins you may have.
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Yes, I am. Born and raised as one, and made the truth my own at 15 when I was dedicated and baptized as a minister of Jehovah God.
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I hope no-one takes offence to your question. It is a valid one and you clearly state this as a generalisation and obviously understand that there is a huge variation in jewish appearance, but yes, there is some characturistics that are considered 'jewish'.\n\nI think it is as someone has already said, there is a geographical orrigination and historically jews have not married out of religion, although this is of course a generalisation in its self. So the gene pool has largely remained intact. Obviousy the genes for those characturistics have been carried through the generations and not been widely circulated among other religious backgrounds. Although again I stress those characturistics are not exclusively jewish and intermarriage has scattered them about into other cultures too.\n\nPerhaps even, many of those characturistic genes are recessive, and therefore generally appear in the more pure jewish families than the ones of more mixed race. \n\nBut I do dissagree with about the 'christian' look. I'm sure out of a line up of jews, christians, muslims, hindus, buddists and many other religions, that someone could pick out a christian. Generally speaking of course. I'm sure we could also find many traditianaly jewish or traditionally muslim looking people and actually find that thay are infact christian or buddist.
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You did not say where you live in the United States.  By the name under your yahoo icon picture, Ramu, you could be from India; but if it is short for Abramu, then you could be Hebrew.  \n\nIf Hebrew, you may want to go to a Temple in your city and speak with the Rabbi, or you can check out this website for the Israeli Embassy in Washington - http://www.israelemb.org/.  \n\nIf you are from India, you can contact the website http://www.indianembassy.org/indusrel/indusrel.htm
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I am not a Jew but I spent a year in Israel and worshipped with Messianic Jews and have friends among them. I've been to Messianic Jewish churches in England too. I know how they think.\n\nMost of the answers above are inaccurate.\n\nIn Israel there are many Christians like you who want to respect and adopt the Jewish tradition. I warn you strongly against it.\n\nRead Galatians and Acts 15. The early Church had to square up to the issue of whether or not gentiles should obey the Torah, and came down firmly against it. It leads to re-enslavement, this time to the Law, which Christ died to set us free from. We do His will by the help of the Holy Spirit, not by attempting to keep the Law, which we will fail at anyway.\n\nThe Christians I've met, mostly in Israel, who start to dabble with Judaism begin by worshipping on Shabbat (Sabbath), keeping the Jewish festivals and using Hebrew terminology. Many become more and more influenced until they believe we have to obey all 613 commandments in Leviticus. There are even extreme cases who ditch Jesus altogether. I knew a New Zealander in Jerusalem who had been baptised in the Spirit and spoken in tongues for 15 years or so. He became convinced that Judaism was correct and that Jesus was a deceiver and, in fact, (God forgive me for repeating this) that He was Satan.\n\nBEWARE!
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It can be either.  For instance, I have a friend who is Anglo, but he's religiously a Jew. And my best friend (last name Steiner) has never been to temple and is not technically Jewish since her mother's a gentile.\n\nSince few people convert to Judaism, most of those who follow the Jewish faith are ethnically Jews.  But there's a weird grey area, so both you and your boyfriend are right.
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nationality = nation. Since Jesus was born under the rule of Rome, he would be a roman, sort of. I am not sure about the status of people born outside of Rome, but under Roman rule. I dont know if they were automatically considered citizens or not. interesting question...
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and mine is jewish,oivey
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Don't get me started on this subject. I believe and some historians agree that the only true originals of that area of the world is the Palestinians every Jew is not genetically connect to the original people only religously.\nNotice most of the Jews that came back to "take back their land" came there from European countries. I have no problems with Jews at all but the facts are most Jews of wealth and knowledge were taken away by the Romans in the \ndays of Roman rule  inter-bred wth  the local people and convert some to Judaism.This is over 2000 years!\n The ones that stayed were invaded by others and eventually became Islamic and called themselves Palestinian.\nThe only reason the major countries of the world support Israel is because the Jews control the banking industry of the world.They got the money! I told you not to get me started.
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I'm a convert - I am born to a buddhist family but I chose Jesus as my personal saviour six years ago. I don't fall into a denomination - so I guess I am non-denominational - but I am Born Again just as it is said in John 3:3. I think it is right because, this is how Jesus says is the way in the Bible and what He says goes.
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Wow, I love your question! I have been thinking this same sort of thing for the last few weeks.  If we are Christians, we worship the same God of the Israelites who commanded these feasts be celebrated.  Why do Christians have to be so separate from their Jewish roots?  I mean, that's where it all came from.  Their history is our history.  I think it's ridiculous how we have become our own subculture with our own holidays and everything!  My husband and I had a great conversation with a Messianic rabbi (that is, a Christian Jew and rabbi) about this topic.  I would really like Christians today to go back to the Jewish roots, the Hebrew roots, the Old Covenant, and really have a real faith in the true God. \nJust as a note: I do celebrate Easter and Christmas, but more out of tradition and culture than anything else. Christmas is my favorite time of year, just because it has that old nostalgic feeling to it, not particularly because we are celebrating the birth of Christ.\n\nGreat question!
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Are you Jewish???\n\nYeah, I don't get why a religion should have a homeland.  Because the Bible says so...F the Fing Bible, maybe I read a different book.\n\nAND I hear ARAB jews are mistreated in Israel, so I guess its not about Jewish solidarity.
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afraid you look too jewish?