[Inyokern]

The whole bone of contention around "Jew" and "Jewish" is that all of the tribes of Jacob (Israel) are being called Jews now, when in fact that word, in English, came to mean the remnants of the House of Judah.

My only bone of contention was that Lost Tribe said that the "Judeans" who remained in Babylonia after the captivity were not Jews and were "unaccounted for." This is simply not true. The "Judeans" who remained in Babylonia and in Egypt (don't forget that there were as many Jews who fled to Egypt as were captured by the Babylonians) were diaspora Jews and very likely make up the majority of modern Jews in the world today.

[William Terrell]

Ok.