I'll concede to gene that there is merit in having Khazar Levite ancestry--I literally just got the results of my Foczko's DNA test from him tonight, and we're working to see whether or not we're Patrilineally-Khazar--as opposed to Patrilineally-Hebrew--Levites. I guess that I now further understand:
We're still Matrilineal Jews and Matrilineal Levites (since, back then, Levites tried to stay married to Levites or Levitical converts)--if (that is, for me and the other Foczkos) we're Khazar Levites.
I rather like the idea of Khazar forefathers. Far from deconstructing my Jewishness, it romanticizes it even more. The thought that my distant ancestors on the plains of Russia had the intelligence and folly to choose Judaism for their religion; that they prayed to a Jewish God as they rode into battle; that (as the historians tell us) they held back the Muslim invasion of Europe from the east and helped keep the West safe for Dante and Shakespeare. Does it make me feel that, as Arab propaganda would have it, I don’t belong in Palestine? Why should it? We Khazars threw in our lot with the Jews and the Jews embraced us. Since then, we’ve also been Jews.
We're still Matrilineal Jews and Matrilineal Levites (since, back then, Levites tried to stay married to Levites or Levitical converts)--if (that is, for me and the other Foczkos) we're Khazar Levites.

