The father could not confer halachic Jewish status, only tribal affiliation. It was only in 1983 that the Reform movement recognized patrilineal descent (Reconstructionist Judaism had gone first ...

which since 1983 has accepted patrilineal as well as matrilineal descent. In earlier generations they may have been excluded from the Jewish community; now, like Levine, they are raised Jewish.As ...

A century ago, popular wisdom held that Jews were a race with a distinctive ... In my own case, the discovery of my patrilineal E3b haplotype has pointed to a line of descent originating in ...