by Reb Gutman Locks Only If Your Mother is Jewish You have to have a Jewish mother to be a Jew! That's the rule. No exceptions! It goes all the way back to our very beginning with our father Avraham and Sarah, and with her maid servant Hagar. Avraham had a son with his wife Sarah our Mother, whose name is Yitzchak. He also had a son with Hagar whose name is Ishmael. Yitzchak is a Jew because his mother Sarah was a Jew (Hebrew in those days). Ishmael is an Egyptian slave because his mother Hagar was an Egyptian...