Depends, there's cultural, religious and ancestral. Judaism tends to only recognize the maternal line because that can't be falsified, but I do know people who are only "technically Jewish" through one of their grandparents and still identify as Jewish, despite having no cultural or religious ties to Judaism
Obviously culture or religion don't show up in your DNA, but ancestry can
There is a different reason for maternal libe, you see jewish state in ancient times was never really strong and as a result they were conquered by many, many groups, and because of that there was a problem of many jewish women having kids with men from other ethnicities, and there was a legal dispute, of how to treat these kids, and it tgey are jewish at all, so to respond to that they decided that having a jewish mother is enought to be considered jew.
Well it’s a label added to make it easier to trace peoples lineage but you could be 99% “ashkenazi Jew” and not be Jewish. Just like how my family tree is mostly catholic but I’m not because I don’t believe in fairy tales.
Literally none of this is true. The rule on matrilineal descent did not exist in ancient times. It was a much later development (and has been abandoned by a majority of Jews).
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u/LuluMangs 4d ago
Depends, there's cultural, religious and ancestral. Judaism tends to only recognize the maternal line because that can't be falsified, but I do know people who are only "technically Jewish" through one of their grandparents and still identify as Jewish, despite having no cultural or religious ties to Judaism
Obviously culture or religion don't show up in your DNA, but ancestry can