Reply To: Reformed Are Jews?

Akuperma”A fairly high percentage of non-Orthodox Jews are actually goyim with Jewish ancestors”
-really there’s no way you can be certain of that or even assume. Technically you can say the same about frum Jews who might not have been Jewish a few generations ago. There’s no way to know for sure. Aside from displaying the 3 characteristics that define a Yid, you are very limited as to how far back you can trace any Jewish connection.

” There are also shailohs since many hold that their marriages were valid, but their divorces weren’t, and children of remarriages are mamzerim.”

– again can’t that be the case with anyone? Who knows what happened down the line?

What’s regarding the conservative Jews? Are they just Yidden that went off the derech so to speak or a consequence of the haskala movement? Is being conservative better than reform or is it essentially the same thing as both are digressions of the correct path?

“A fairly high percentage of non-Orthodox Jews are actually goyim with Jewish ancestors.”

-Are you putting non frum Jews in the same category as reform? Reform is an actual belief and accept non Jews while being traditional does not mean you believe in the reform ways most likely they believe in the orthodox way of doing things except they aren’t observant.