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I would like to send a letter to my brother explaining why I hope he will follow our Jewish heritage and have a Jewish funeral just like all of our family members have had in the past. Should I keep ...

Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, the practice of Jewish (religious) law and the study of ancient religious texts

Jew, any person whose religion is Judaism. In a broader sense of the term, a Jew is any person belonging to the worldwide group that constitutes, through descent or conversion, a continuation of the ancient Jewish people, who were themselves descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible (Old Testament).

I think a lot of Jews are more comfortable with the term Jewish, particularly when it comes from someone who is not Jewish and whose reason for using the word is in question.

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