You have'nt met many Jews i suppose . Or only East European . Here , in my country , there are 100 % Jews , whom you would call Arabs . They came from North Africa . And also many other non East Europeans who don't have the "Polish or Russian" look as you wrote [ how do they look ? ]
Regarding "who is Jewish" , here the response is : a Jewish mother , or conversion by Orthodox [ maybe that conversions made by other than Orthodox , outside Israel are also accepted here ]. Of course , if a Jew converts to another faith , his body is still Jewish , but his head no more , so no more Jewish .
You have'nt met many Jews i suppose . Or only East European . Here , in my country , there are 100 % Jews , whom you would call Arabs . They came from North Africa . And also many other non East Europeans who don't have the "Polish or Russian" look as you wrote [ how do they look ? ] Regarding "who is Jewish" , here the response is : a Jewish mother , or conversion by Orthodox [ maybe that conversions made by other than Orthodox , outside Israel are also accepted here ]. Of course , if a Jew converts to another faith , his body is still Jewish , but his head no more , so no more Jewish .