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Originally Posted by usuario
Likewise, you can be 63/64th non-Jewish in ancestry, but if the right great-great-great-greatgrandmother is Jewish, then you're 100% Jewish, as Jewish as the Chief Rabbis of Israel.
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I used to think that, but apparently it is not true, as has been made clear in a case in our community which a bais din is still in the process of resolving. The fellow involved actually has TWO Jewish grandparents on his mother's side, and still has a question or two pending, which have to go the right way. Don't ask me for details, because I don't understand them well enough to reproduce them accurately, but most likely your local orthodox rabbi can give you some of the general principles. I think it involves "Yoshkeh."
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