Oddball
Unobtanium Member
No, I'm having trouble shoehorning common usage of language into terms that are incompatible, in modern semantic meanings...George Orwell wrote books about that shit.The trouble you're having is by trying to fit thousands of years of Halachic Law into your narrow, sociologically-based definitions of what is, or is not, an ethnicity.
According to Jewish Law, if your born to a Jewish Mother, or a legitimate convert to Judaism, you are a Jew in perpetuity, as are your offspring to Jewish mother. If you are a Jew by Halachic Law, you are part of the Jewish Community, even if you choose not to participate.
Not a distinction based on race, or nationality, or blood, or even common belief.
You might have a hard time accepting the definition, but it has existed for thousands of years and seems to work just fine for us.