Quest for Judaic Identity

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center;background:white;'><span style='font-size:14px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>Judaism is a religion.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:center;background:white;'><span style='font-size:14px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>Jews are people.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:14px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>While the two are closely associated they are nevertheless distinct entities. The Old Testament identifies a Jew as an individual who is a direct lineal descendant of the patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob and if male they must be circumcised.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:14px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>The Jew acquires Jewish genetic identity at the moment of conception. That identity is not lost by conversion to another faith or adoption of atheism. A converted Jew who returns to Judaism is not obliged to convert back since that person never stopped being a Jew. Jewish genetic identity cannot be created or altered by conversion which simply involves religious instruction blessings by a cleric and immersion into a ritual bath.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:14px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>In the third century A.D. the rabbis altered the biblical source of Jewish identity from the Jewish male to the Jewish female causing abject retrospective and prospective confusion. Today As a result of that change a Jewish husband married to a gentle wife must procure a token but ineffectual conversion for his wife before childbirth in order to maintain that his child was born Jewish.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:10.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-size:14px;font-family:Calibrisans-serif;color:black;'>Without a verifiable identity a person does not exist.</span></p>