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| | Jew |
 | | Jewishness is determined by the mother (matrilineal descent); thus the immediate male descendants of a female Jewish apostate are still considered Jewish; all her female descendants, but only in a documented unbroken female line of descent, and their immediate male children are also considered Jewish. |
 | | Many Sephardim live in France (most of its Jews), Eastern Europe and Central Asia (small numbers), and the USA (a very small number), but most are in Israel (about 50% of Israelis), where they have created their own large ethnic political party called Shas guided by their rabbis such as Ovadia Yosef. |
 | | When granted political, economic and religious freedom, many Jews, probably the majority, choose to adopt the ways and religions of their host nations, abandoning many vestiges of their own ethnicity and religion, and then frequently choose to marry non-Jews when living outside of Israel. |
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