According to the tradition, the People of Israel were chosen by the Deity to receive the Torah, and to carry the burden of abiding by it. That's all it means really.
The Christians have adopted the written part of the Torah, which they call the Old Testament, and added their own book to make the Bible. So let us say that if we are the chosen, they are the choosers.
They picked what they needed, and added their own stuff. In Greek.

_____________________________________________ No, you look like you have a laudible and respectful curiousity about what people believe.

Nagaland!!! Please clarify with me, is that not the state in India which the British were never able to fully subdue and they have an independence and freedom streak in them?? The kind that never surrenders.

And that this Nagaland which borders tamil nadu, simply issued an optimatum to tamil nadu to redraw the state borders to the advantage of Nagaland, and immediately the Tamil nadu capitulated, thinking of what kind of consequences it would get if it did not.

I also saw a photo, of Nagaland, where opposed to most of India which venerates and worship cows, the Nagalanders simply speared cows in the streets with impunity.

Well a footnote of history.

Jews of ancient Israel proselytizied to Galileans to convert them to jews, according to the history books, this was done by force. And rather a success it was. Though they had different more simple, brave, direct and brash charecteristics as often described by the reaction of jews in the bible to galileans speaking.

The galileans were among the first that Christ the messiah first selected and was teaching peacefully. Having found this as a threat the jewish religious high council the sanhedrin decided to cast off or split with Christians (the first of whom were undoubtedly jewish, though the naming of the group as Christians originated in greece)

Then the Christians took the name of the Lord everywhere they went to the rest of the world.

Well a footnote of history.

Jews of ancient Israel proselytizied to Galileans to convert them to jews, according to the history books, this was done by force. And rather a success it was. Though they had different more simple, brave, direct and brash charecteristics as often described by the reaction of jews in the bible to galileans speaking.

The galileans were among the first that Christ the messiah first selected and was teaching peacefully. Having found this as a threat the jewish religious high council the sanhedrin decided to cast off or split with Christians (the first of whom were undoubtedly jewish, though the naming of the group as Christians originated in greece)

Then the Christians took the name of the Lord everywhere they went to the rest of the world.

All of the kings of the northern Kingdom of Israel were practicing pagans (and most of their people as well). Many of the kings of Judah (Manasseh springs to mind as the foremost example) were practicing pagans. Are they still considered Jews?

 

Does the definition of Jewish identity mean that a Jew may practice Judaism, or agnosticism or atheism, but not avow another religion? Or does it simply mean that Jews cannot be Christian?    

Thank you very much...

Not much. For us Jews, apostates are despicable traitors and must be shunned. If, however, the said apostate is outstandingly successful, has a brilliant career, becomes famous, and, most importantly, refrains from turning against us, we all enthusiastically claim him back, and take great pride in him being one of us. In this case, we regard apostasy as just another one of these little "schticks", such as Einstein's untidiness and Dayan's womanizing, that normally come with great personalities.

I did initiate a thread, a few days ago, about Cardinal Lustiger z"l on the France board. Nobody reacted.
Make sure you read some of the talkbacks below the article I linked to there. Entertaining!