ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
I demand DNA testing before answering the question.
Won't be very useful, as the Jewish race is a myth, as is the common root theory.
Modern genetics (DNA) confirms this.
Basically as various Jewish sects were persecuted, they stopped converting as much. However it is basically a culture that spurned further cultures, much like Celtic.
Of course now there are genetic identities within the Jewish communities, however, it isn't proof of Judaism and and the Ethiopian Jews are no more the lost dan tribe than ashkenazi are related to them.
Judaism is a religion that came out of Canaanite and other cultures, and still incorporates some of these ritual in their practice such as Kapparot.
So if you think someone has a Jewish nose, they cans just as well come from some other background.
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