[quote name='gargus']So whats the story here? He was something and now he is something else? I mean I understand the whole moral of the story but it just means he has no conviction. He was a skinhead and into it big time, he finds out he has jew relatives and now he is a jew? If he really stood by his beliefs he would still be a skinhead and heritage be damned, it didnt matter to him before he knew not sure why it would after the fact.
Now Im not prejudice, Im not a skinhead, I dont hate jews and its all cool and the gang he left the hate and violence behind him, wish more people would. But for some reason it just annoys me that people like him are such sheeps being led around. First he falls into the incredibly brainless mentality of being a skinhead but then he just mindlessly falls into being a jew. He should have just been his own person to begin with instead of just following others.
In the end though one less skinhead is better than 1 more.[/QUOTE]
People can't really choose to not be Jewish. It is passed through the mother to their kids. Choosing to practice is obviously a different matter.
Taken from Wikipedia - According to
halakha, the oldest normative definition used by Jews for self-identification, a person is
matrilineally a
Jew by birth, or becomes one through
conversion to Judaism.