5. The Proud Jew
1960s - 1990s
The annoying, unashamed JAP
The neurotic New Yorker
Proudly depicting identity
But not exploring what it means
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6. The Everyman Jew
1990s - 2000s
The secular Jew
The everyman Jew
Taking their Jewishness lightly and as a funny
but showing Jews are the every-man or
every-woman
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Jerry Seinfeld, Louis Dreyfus
David Schwimmer, Monica Geller
7. Jerry Seinfeld, Louisa Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, “The Anti-Dentite”, Seinfeld .Season 8, Ep. 153 (1997).
8. The Jewish Seeker
1990s to 21st Century
Jewish characters taking their
Jewishness serious and trying to
understand what it means.
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10. The Jewish Hero
1990s to 21st Century
Tackling signi
fi
cant Jewish issues
Fighting anti-Semitism
Dealing with the Holocaust
Taking Jewish issues seriously
And asking Americans to as well
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15. What attracts Gentiles to Messianic Movement
Kaell, Hillary. “Born-Again Seeking: Explaining the Gentile Majority in Messianic
Judaism”. Religion (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2014.949899
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16. Who are attracted to congregations?
1. Single, not families
2. Born-Again Evangelicals,
3. Seekers, searching for meaning
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17. What attracts Gentiles to Congregations?
1. Biblical — Finding the Jewish Jesus
2. Prophetic — Unlocking secrets and preparing for the end times
3. Experiential — Worshipping like Jesus and acquiring ritual experience
4. Genetics — Discovering a hidden Jewish past
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19. What did she say is missing?
1. Identifying with the Jewish community
2. Relating to other Jews
3. Seeking to understand other Jews
4. Witnessing — Desire to witness to Jewish seekers
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20. How was Jewish identity described in Dorot?
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29. What we do know
• Shared DNA between all Jewish communities around the world
• Cohen Haplotype found in all Jewish communities
• Deep European genes in Ashkenazi Jews explains European similarities
• Kazari Theory been disproved
• Jews share DNA with original inhabitants of Palestine including Palestinians
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30. In recent years, genetic studies have demonstrated that, at least paternally, Jewish
ethnic divisions and the Palestinians are related to each other.[95] Genetic studies on
Jews have shown that Jews and Palestinians are closer to each other than the Jews
are to their host countries.[96][97] At the haplogroup level, de
fi
ned by the binary
polymorphisms only, the Y chromosome distribution in Arabs and Jews was similar but
not identical
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Nebel, Almut; Filon, Dvora; Weiss, Deborah A.; Weale, Michael; Faerman, Marina; Oppenheim, Ariella; Thomas, Mark G. (December 2000). "High-resolution Y
chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews" (PDF). Human
Genetics. 107 (6): 630–641. doi:10.1007/s004390000426. PMID 11153918. S2CID 8136092.
Atzmon G, Hao L, Pe'er I, Velez C, Pearlman A, Palamara PF, Morrow B, Friedman E, Oddoux C, Burns E, Ostrer H (June 2010). "Abraham's children in the genome
era: major Jewish diaspora populations comprise distinct genetic clusters with shared Middle Eastern Ancestry". American Journal of Human Genetics. 86 (6): 850–
9. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.04.015. PMC 3032072. PMID 20560205.
31. Questions Remaining
• Is there a “Jewish Gene”?
• With so much shared DNA scattered around the world, who can you call
“Jewish” based on their DNA?
• Is DNA undependable in determining Jewish Identity?
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