I know that religion-wise, I'm not considered jewish, but am I from a geneti

Question:I know that in jewish religion, I'm not considered jewish because my mother's father was jewish, he was from Isreal, so from a genetics point of view, am I part jewish?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I know that in jewish religion, I'm not considered jewish because my mother's father was jewish, he was from Isreal, so from a genetics point of view, am I part jewish?

When Israel was established in 1948, Jews from all over the world took residence there. This is likely in the timeframe of your mother's father.

So that your mother's father was Jewish, and from Israel, doesn't in and of itself identify any kind of ethnicity (where were your mother's father's parents from?? their parents??)

There are Jews, tons of them (I'm one) who have no known association with the region of Israel. From a religious standpoint, there could be conversion, assimilation, any number of ways someone could consider themselves Jewish today.

There really is no "genetics" point of view. In some cases, genetics can maybe tell you that at some point in the last 0 to 14 generations it is more likely that your ancestors were from some specific region than any other single region (note that "more likely" is an important term - it is not "did"). However, in most cases, you are actually more likely to come from the collective of all other regions than any specific region.

Really what you can say is that my mother's father was Jewish and he was from Israel. That's great information to know. Beyond that, well, "the evidence may indicate", something, it may be "more likely", but that's it.

BTW, most of the quoted terms I used are the exact same ones found in the hard to find disclaimer pages of those Ancestral DNA testing sites.

Here, try the following like on Jew at Wikipedia. It may help.

Yes. I'm Huguenot by the same standard, only a smaller fraction.

Study medicine and play the violin. Maybe some of that talent is inherited.

This Wiki site gets a little technical, but it's a good explanation. The "Drawbacks" section says:

>>> The Y DNA lineage from father to son can have complications including mutation and false paternity (i.e. the father in one generation is not the father in birth records).

Maternal DNA is generally harder to correlate with surnames because the mother displaces the father's maternal DNA ( from his mother). Maternal DNA continues only from mother to daughter.

Also, a daughter cannot transmit her father's Y DNA to her sons and a son cannot transmit his mother's maternal DNA to his children. <<<

Your DNA is like a spoonful taken from a pot of stew. Just because there's carrots in the pot doesn't mean you have one in your spoon.

Assuming from your handle that you're male, you have a Y from your father that he got from his father. And you have an X from your mother -- which could have come from either of her parents. So there's no way to tell without testing if your X came from your Israeli-born grandfather or your non-Israeli grandmother.

And with each generation you go back, the possibilities shift .

Forget all the "technicalities". You are a direct descendent of a fine man of the Hebrew faith. Whether you share his religion or not, his blood runs through your veins. You are as Jewish as half of Skokie, Illinois...and that's the most Jewish town outside of Tel Aviv. Like you, the majority are of many mixed heritages, Jew and Gentile alike. Yes, you are part Jewish and there's nothing complicated about it.

If your mother's mother was Jewish than you may be. Your mother's dna is passed to you not her fathers or any great grandmothers fathers either. The maternal dna is passed from the first mother in your line. I would suggest family tree dna for a mtdna test.
Shalom