This is a commonly asked question and it needs to be answered. Here's the short answer: YES! If you are ethnically Jewish, and you share a common ancestor (Abraham) with the rest of the Jewish nation, then yes, you are Jewish! Judaism is an ethno religion, meaning the Jewish people share a religion and an ethnicity. You might be a convert, so you're religiously Jewish but not ethnically Jewish. In your case, you are ethnically Jewish but not religiously Jewish. Either way, you are Jewish (even more Jewish than converts, in the eyes of many Orthodox Jews). There are also many, many famous secular Jews, like Adam Sandler, Natalie Portman, Barbra Streisand, Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and Marilyn Monroe! So you are certainly Jewish.
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