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Professor Shaye J. D. Cohen, "The origin of the Matrilineal rule in Rabbinical Judaism" Sorek, Susan. "Mothers of Israel: Why the Rabbis Adopted a Matrilineal Principle." "Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal", 2002, Reform Movement's Resolution on Patrilineal Descent, March 15, 1983. "The Status of Children of Mixed Marriages"
Progressive Judaism and Haymanot Judaism in general base Jewishness on having at least one Jewish parent, while Karaite Judaism bases Jewishness only on paternal lineage. These differences between the major Jewish movements are the source of the disagreement and debate about who is a Jew.
Matrilineal surnames are names transmitted from mother to daughter, in contrast to the more familiar patrilineal surnames transmitted from father to son, the pattern most common among family names today. For clarity and for brevity, the scientific terms patrilineal surname and matrilineal surname are usually abbreviated as patriname and ...
[38] [b] Today, over 85% of Jews live in Israel or the United States. Israel, whose population is 73.9% Jewish, is the only country where Jews comprise more than 2.5% of the population. Israel, whose population is 73.9% Jewish, is the only country where Jews comprise more than 2.5% of the population.
This conception of Jewishness helped to preserve the Jewish people during the diaspora, when Jews were "scattered among the nations". It was similarly invoked by the Zionist movement, which sought to Negate the Diaspora (shlilat ha'galut) by Gathering the exiled of Israel (Kibbutz Galuyot) back to their homeland, where they would achieve ...
“There’s so much history on the Arab American side,” Gilman tells TODAY.com from his Cranford, New Jersey, office, “and it goes back where there were inventions and advances that some don ...
The casting has been making some waves. Corenswet is half Jewish, which has prompted articles in pop culture sites like Inverse, Jewish press like The Jewish Chronicle and even a 1,400-word piece ...
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