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These debates cause great problems for recognition of Jewish marriages, conversions, and other life decisions that are touched by Jewish law.
Finally, the North American Reform and Reconstructionst movemements recognize patrilineality, under certain circumstances, as a valid claim towards Judaism, whereas Conservative and Orthodox maintain the position expressed in the Talmud and Codes that one can be a Jew only through matrilineality ( born of a Jewish mother ) or through conversion to Judaism.
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