From an interesting post by Rabbi Shaul Valadez (actually responding to a question on patrilinearity in Judaism): Judaism is not race based. Anyone can become

From an interesting post by Rabbi Shaul Valadez (actually responding to a question on patrilinearity in Judaism): Judaism is not race based. Anyone can become a Jew if they choose to. Even in Abraham’s time The first and greatest student of Abraham was Eliezer of Damascus. He was a Cannanite and he was actually a Phonecian from Africa by ancestry. He is said to be so righteous that he, like Elijah The Prophet never died. https://www.quora.com/Would-patrilineal-Jews-such-as-myself-have-been-more-accepted-by-Jewish-communities-worldwide-by-now-had-it-not-been-for-the-Holocaust https://www.quora.com/Would-patrilineal-Jews-such-as-myself-...