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Okay; that's bullcrap. I am Jewish. I may not fit the P'rushi mold or the general Non-Messianic mold, but I'm Jewish. Given Patrilineal and Messianic Jews like me, that the Jewish community is considered increasingly few in number, being lost, etc. is no wonder—Jews like me, after all, aren't counted.
Also, some in the Jewish community love to cherrypick and consider apparent Non Jews to be Jewish when to do so is convenient for them. For example, Michael Douglas and Josh Groban are considered Jewish; and Michael Douglas has a gentile mother, and Josh Groban is a Messianic and mostly-Patrilineal Jew.
So, again, I am Jewish, even though I don't fit the P'rushi or general Non-Messianic molds. As a friend of mine stated (and she's a Reform Jew and an Ashkenazi Levite), nobody should ever tell anyone that he or she is not Jewish. As someone else out it, as I recall, people tell people that they're not Jewish and then wonder why the intermarriage, Reform, and Messianic rates are increasing (and not that I myself will give up Yeshua if the whole of the Jewish community decides to consider me Jewish—in fact, Christianity is Essenism; and Essenism is a Jewish sect, as is Lubavitch Judaism—although I disagree with the Lubavitchim about whom HaRebbe HaMoshiach is. In addition, I am disappointed when bnei v'banot Anusim give up Yeshua when they find out who they are—they give up a Jewish man as their Messiah because they found out that they are Jewish and for whom the Jewish Messiah came first? Where's the sekel in that?).
In conclusion, give me a break and don't tell me that I am not Jewish!
Also, some in the Jewish community love to cherrypick and consider apparent Non Jews to be Jewish when to do so is convenient for them. For example, Michael Douglas and Josh Groban are considered Jewish; and Michael Douglas has a gentile mother, and Josh Groban is a Messianic and mostly-Patrilineal Jew.
So, again, I am Jewish, even though I don't fit the P'rushi or general Non-Messianic molds. As a friend of mine stated (and she's a Reform Jew and an Ashkenazi Levite), nobody should ever tell anyone that he or she is not Jewish. As someone else out it, as I recall, people tell people that they're not Jewish and then wonder why the intermarriage, Reform, and Messianic rates are increasing (and not that I myself will give up Yeshua if the whole of the Jewish community decides to consider me Jewish—in fact, Christianity is Essenism; and Essenism is a Jewish sect, as is Lubavitch Judaism—although I disagree with the Lubavitchim about whom HaRebbe HaMoshiach is. In addition, I am disappointed when bnei v'banot Anusim give up Yeshua when they find out who they are—they give up a Jewish man as their Messiah because they found out that they are Jewish and for whom the Jewish Messiah came first? Where's the sekel in that?).
In conclusion, give me a break and don't tell me that I am not Jewish!
