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 No, but neither do I, and I am a true Jew, because I believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and have not rejected the Messiah promised to them, but have embraced him as my Savior and Lord, the son of David, who is the ultimate fulfillment of God's promise to Eve in the garden, at the time of the fall, to Abraham that through his seed all the nations would be blessed, and to David that a king of his lineage would sit on the throne of Israel forever.

Jesus is and always will be the Jewish Messiah. He can't NOT be Jewish, regardless of what he is eating or wearing. Though he is now seated at the right hand of the Father, he is still fully God AND fully man. He did not lay aside his humanity at the ascension any more than he laid aside his deity when he was born of a woman. If he was Jewish then, he is Jewish now.

It's the Jews who are not Jewish anymore, because they have rejected HIM. They are the ones who have ceased to be Jewish, not Jesus.