Re: [ha-Safran]: what is Jewish?

2005-02-16 Thread Shmuel Ben-Gad
I do not mean to underestimate the possible difficulties of defining Jewish, but if there really can be no basic working definition or standards of what is Jewish, Judaica, etc. for the AJL, what is to stop the AJL from recommending, and even giving awards to, so-called Messianic Jewish

Re: [ha-Safran]: what is Jewish?

2005-02-15 Thread Rose Myers
--- S B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Eli Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I to understand there is no basic definition in AJL for what is appropriately Jewish? There can't be a basic definition for what is Jewish because there is no one authority recognized by all Jews as