Zera Yisrael

Zera Yisrael (Hebrew: זרע ישראל, lit. 'Seed [of] Israel') is a legal category in Halakha that denotes recent genetic descendants of Jews, who are not legally Jewish according to religious criteria. This is due to a break in matrilineal Jewish ancestry.

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