yichus

Although the Jewishness of the person is determined by the mother, the child's "yichus", (the tribal affiliation, tradition, customs and nusach of prayer) are determined by the Jewish father.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

And DB, being descended from Rashi is serious yichus.

The Volokh Conspiracy » N.Y. Times on “The Invention of the Jewish People” 2009

And are most haredim really willing to claim that somewhere along their yichus lineage something probably went wrong somewhere?

Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool 2007

I does have an impact: Hard core hareidim are careful about yichus, along with other issues that assert their exclusivity.

Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool 2007

The search for yichus is most unrelenting within narrow yeshivishe elites and, of course,hard-core chassidic “aristocracy.”

Tainted Love Child: The Baal Teshuvah’s Status as a Ben Niddah in the Haredi World | Jewschool 2007

In addition, the new diversity of Jewish-mother-approved professions has diluted the yichus from medicine.

Forget What I Said! Jewish Moms Tell Nudniks Not to Be Doctors 2006

“Medicine offered them a way to live a bourgeois lifestyle to which they were accustomed -- but you still had the yichus.”

Forget What I Said! Jewish Moms Tell Nudniks Not to Be Doctors 2006

In addition, the new diversity of Jewish-mother-approved professions has diluted the yichus from medicine.

Forget What I Said! Jewish Moms Tell Nudniks Not to Be Doctors 2006

“Medicine offered them a way to live a bourgeois lifestyle to which they were accustomed -- but you still had the yichus.”

Forget What I Said! Jewish Moms Tell Nudniks Not to Be Doctors 2006

In addition, the new diversity of Jewish-mother-approved professions has diluted the yichus from medicine.

Forget What I Said! Jewish Moms Tell Nudniks Not to Be Doctors 2006