Life Has Gotten So Complicated

According to Jewish Law, a child is the religion of the mother, and if the child (and mother) are Jewish and the father is Jewish, then the tribe of the child is determined from the father. For most modern Jews, tribal identity is unknown. Only the Kohen-Levi Priestly Tribes have an unbroken tradition. And modern genetic testing have proven this correct.

Kohen and Levi are both descended from our Biblical Patriarch Jacob's son, Levi, and it's very rare for anyone to prove that they descend from any of the other eleven tribes/sons of Jacob.

Some people have an ancient family tradition that they're descended from King David, who was of the tribe of Judah, but even if that's so, it's probably not a straight male line. There are Indian Jews believed to be descended from Menashe, another of the sons. The story, which is very possible, is that the tribe of Menashe wandered to India and settled there a couple of thousand years ago.

Today, when women can be impregnated with a thriving embryo consisting of someone else's egg and who knows who's sperm, a child's genetic history can be a total and utter mystery. Until recent times, there could be unknown factors in paternity if the mother had intercourse whether willingly or unwillingly with unknown or multiple men.

So now, it seems that Michael Jackson's children aren't his biological products and may not even have been of the eggs of Debbie Rowe who was married to him and carried the first two to term.

No doubt, more information will come to the media about it. I'm glad that so far, at least, there's no Jewish angle, because that would make it more complicated.