lev always good to see a fellow lhs grad doing well my comment though is that if your dad is jewish it seems like an oversimplification to simply say that you are not if i tell you my dad is irish and that my name is sean o'malley doesn't it sound a little weird if i tell you i don't consider myself irish at all ashkenazi jews make up a distinctive historical ethnic group separate from the jewish religion of course you can consider yourself anything you want take care