Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Jewish?

maybe joan osborne will follow up "What if God was one of us?" with "what if we're all secret Jews?" -- it's sort of the Levy's Rye theory of history

I agree that the stories about Clark and Kerry, another example, were sort of ho-hum, whatever. But come on Ezra, Ahmadinejad! that's interesting.

Once, around April Fools day, NPR did a story about some of their abandoned April Fools story ideas.

One of them was that recent documents came out showing that Mel Brooks was a W.A.S.P.

I've always found it interesting that Jewishness is bloodline while every other religion (I think) is a philosophy. I'm sure there is some theological reason for this, but what good is someone whose rejected the faith to Israel.

Otherwise, asserting that Ahmadinejad is Jewish is rather demeaning to Judaism.

Neal3, there is a reason we sometimes call ourselves the Tribe, y'know. The whole idea of proselytising and people acquiring religious identities separate from their national identities, by choice rather than by birth, is rather a bit newer than Judaism.

This also is why there are a lot of Jewish Atheists - I'm one, for example - but I'm not sure the terms "Christian Atheist" or "Muslim Atheist" would even make sense.