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