Day 23: Who Jew?

Okay, this was another, "I ran out of time poem," inspired by a question posted by a rabbi friend of mine on facebook, and at the risk of taking a very serious question and making it all Dr. Seussy, here it is:

Who Jew?
By Batsheva 12/24/09

Who Jew?
You Jew!
Tell me true, Jew
What's it take
To be a Jew?
Nu?

Is it just having
A Jewish mother
As most rabbis would say?
Or are there perhaps
Some other
Factors in the way?
Like how you were raised?
The Reform Jews amazed
The rest when they said
That this mattered
But the Orthodox cried
And said that they lied
And the Jewish People
Were shattered.

How can it be true
Someone's not a Jew
If they follow all Jewish Law
But some little blip
On their conversion slip
Was an unacceptable flaw?
Yet someone else
With a Jewish mom
Is totally Jewish for sure
Despite this tiny little bomb:
He eats baked ham on Yom Kippur.

Is it what you believe
Or what you do?
Or pure genetics?
Tell me true--
What's it take
To be a Jew?
Nu?