# Who is a Jew? (removed from thread on Jewish heads of state)

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> [@Jewish heads of state/government](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jewish-heads-of-state-government/431613/30):
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> I see—so he’s probably not Jewish according to the parameters of this question, then.

From the parameters of the question a large number of self-identified Jews in America don’t count. Maybe most. What counts as “actively practicing”? If I am an atheist who goes to Yom Kippur services out of an appreciation of the tradition, am I practicing? Not by any Orthodox standard. But by standards of American Jewishness fer sure.

I don’t know about the question being offensive, but to many Jews it is at least ignorant and not with any meaning.

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