"JN466—he asserts in plain English that he is Jewish. The interviewer asks him if he is a practicing Jew. He replies that he is not a practicing Jew. The first half of the sentence remains just as true with or without the second half of the sentence. He did not say that he is not a Jew. He would have to disavow Jewishness for us to consider him not a Jew. You are not ""erring on the side of cautiousness"" when you strip him of the Jewishness that he asserts. You are just ""erring.""    

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