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

[commasense]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

The interesting part of the question is, to me, who gets to define members of a group: each individual, or the consensus among members of the group?

Here is a thread I started almost 12 years ago about an Orthodox group that wasn’t sure I was Jewish (or perhaps Jewish enough for them), and what I might have done about it.