patrilineal Jew

English

Noun

patrilineal Jew (plural patrilineal Jews)

  1. (Judaism) Somebody born to a Jewish father but a gentile mother. They count as Jewish by default under Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism, but not under other Jewish sects.
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