Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: Benjamin Family Genealogy Forum Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? Posted by: David Benjamin (ID *****0912) Date: June 28, 2005 at 11:33:02 In Reply to: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? by Priscilla Pettengill of 1829 There are many jewish Benjamins in the present. I have attended synagogue with some of them, though I do not practice judaism. There is a difference between "hebrew" and "jewish." We may be of hebrew origin but do not practice judaism and therefore are hebrew but not "jewish." One can also be jewish but not hebrew (ie sammy davis jr, whoopie goldberg), people who convert to judaism but were not born of hebrew blood. Hebrew is blood/race, jewish is religion. Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? David Benjamin 6/29/05 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? Priscilla Pettengill 6/28/05 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? David Benjamin 6/29/05 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? Pamela Cain 8/20/05 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? Priscilla Pettengill 6/30/05 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? susan plouffe 12/22/05 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? Priscilla Pettengill 3/12/06 Re: Could Benjamins have been Jewish in the past? David Benjamin 8/28/05 http://genforum.genealogy.com/benjamin/messages/1551.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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