Reply To: Giyoress or Not?

dolphina -“This is such a silly conversation. How do you know she’s not Jewish? Maybe her mother is Jewish and her father isn’t. Maybe her mother converted. Maybe her grandmother converted. Maybe both her parents are Jewish from birth and she just looks Asian. Maybe anything.”

Anything is possible, but we Jews live acc. to Halacha and it has to be probable. There are actually very few Chinese Geirim and to say she is a child of one of them is even more improbable.

“Shame on everyone here. You have no idea, and to cast aspersions egregious.

For shame.”

The shame would be if I didn’t question. People who claim to be Jews aren’t given a Carte D’blanche that they are. If there are reasons to assume not, like in this case, were she doesn’t cover her hair and it’s most likely she doesn’t even think she has to, then the burden of proof is on her, not the other way around.

People like me who come from generations of Jews, even though noone knows if e/o from the Frum community is really Jewish, but we have something called a Chazaka. This is a Torah term that is difficult to explain. That means if something was a certain way for a period of time, like by land ownership – a period of 3 years, then it was always this way.