Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!sher
From: sher@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Who is a Jew
Message-ID: <584@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 20:44:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: rocheste.584
Posted: Fri Aug  3 20:44:00 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 01:02:08 EDT
References: <1438@ittvax.UUCP>, <223@fisher.UUCP>, <225@mit-athena.ARPA>
Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept.
Lines: 18

In a jewish philosophy course I took in college I read a passage 
by Maimonides which defined exactly who is a jew.  Unfortunately my copy
of Maimonides excerps is in another city.   Can someone quote the passage
(It is probably the most referenced section of his extremely referenced work
so I think it should be no problem finding it.)  
FLAME:
Anyway I also suggest that 
if Mr Martillo does not want to consider me to be in the same people as he
then he is no longer jewish because I am.  I often violate talmudic law but
that is insufficient to exclude me from Judaism according to Jewish law.
(I think that even if I were to be excomunicated I would still be jewish 
but am not sure.)  The fact that Mr. Martillo is ashamed of most of the 
Jews of the world (or at least a substantial percentage) should not act to
confuse people about important facts like just who is a Jew.  Otherwise
I would not respond to his overemotional postings  (In other words I have
to be fairly annoyed before I flame).

-David Sher