Art Thieme - Good point there! And very succinctly put. So, how do you define what a "Jew" is? Is it a religious designation, a genetic one, a cultural one, or a social one? Or is it various of those in one combination or another?

Obviously, the word "Jew" means, as in the case of numerous other words, whatever the person using it thinks it means. No wonder people are always arguing about these things and can't come to any agreeable conclusions... :-)

I would tend to agree that generally speaking a "Jew" is seen as someone whose parents are "Jewish"...except in the case of Sammy Davis Jr.???

- LH