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Answer 1
The "Jewish Race" doesn't exist. There are 2 types of Jews; those who are Jewish by descent (a trait which is followed through the mother's side of the family) who may or may not practice Judaism; and practicing Jews, who observe the laws given by God to Moses (the 10 commandments) and the other 210+ laws delineated in Leviticus. Some Jews are more observant than others.
Judaism is a religion, a history, a culture, a tradition, a body of ethics, and an ethnicity. It is not a race. Jews are members of the human race, much like many other people.
Answer 2
Quote, from a dictionary: "Race is a classification system used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by heritable phenotypic characteristics, geographic ancestry, physical appearance, ethnicity." Based on all of those delineations except appearance, it would be possible to call the Jews a race. Recent DNA analyses has shown that Jews are a Middle Eastern people and share certain genetic markers.
Answer 3
The Jewish "race" is Caucasian (there are only 4 races; Caucasian, Hispanic, African-American, Asian and, to a lesser extent, occasionally Native- American).
Answer 4
They are an ethno-religious group, meaning that the Jewish people are a well-recognized ethnicity sharing distinctive physical characteristics as well as a similar genetic make-up and cultural background. The Jews as we know today are descendants of the Ancient Israelites.
Answer 5
Answer 3 is a couple of thousand years behind the times. It deals with the first type of Jews that were clearly described in the first line of the first answer up above: " ... those who are Jewish by descent (a trait which is followed through the mother's side of the family) who may or may not practice Judaism ... ". It completely ignores those who are "Jews by choice", i.e. converts. Though Judaism does not seek or encourage converts, and indeed discourages them, they are fully welcome if they're sincere and determined and complete the appropriate education and procedure. Note that the convert's 'race' is never an issue. After that, the convert's descendants are as Jewish as the descendants of any Jew-by- descent, and this line of Jews can fall into any 'race'.
One other remark on the Answer 3 above: In enumerating the '4 races', Answer 3 lists "African-American", and this makes me wonder which race would include all the Africans who have never been to America ?
In any event, Answer 3 would seem to imply that there are no African Jews, whether American or otherwise. But I just met one this morning in my synagogue, with his wife and their son. I went to greet him, but had to wait a while, as he was involved in a long discussion of Jewish laws with our Rabbi. There were a lot of other people there who would have looked askance on the matter if Answer 3 had said that our new member is the wrong race to be Jewish.
Now that you mention it . . . I'm reminded that business has taken me to inconvenient places at inconvenient times, and I have also participated in holiday services at synagogues filled with Hispanic Jews in Caracas, and with Asian Jews in Harbin and Hong Kong.
I'd think some of them would also have looked askance at such a suggestion.
Answer 6
The word "race" is not normally applied to Jews, since it is usually used concerning large groups of mankind. The Jews are, however, recognized as an ethnicity, since they are Middle Eastern in origin and are inter-related, as has been shown through DNA analysis of Jewish groups worldwide. There has been an influx of converts over the generations, yet this Jewish ethnicity is still clearly detectable.
Jews are not Caucasians in origin. According to Jewish tradition, there are three races (Genesis ch.10): Japheth (Indo-European), Hamitic (African and others), and Semitic (Arabs, Jews, Assyrians, Elamites, Arameans and some others).
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∙ 11y ago
Jewish is a religion, not a race. Jewish people can come from a variety of racial backgrounds.
Wiki User
∙ 15y agoJudaism is not a race, nor a nationality. Judaism is a religion. Israeli is a nationality. All people are one race; human.
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∙ 11y agoBeing Jewish is a religion, not a race. Jews can be of any race just as Catholics and Baptists etc. can. You should look up the definition of the word "race".
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∙ 14y agoHuman.
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Is race an abstract noun?
Yes, race is an abstract noun. It refers to a concept or idea rather than a tangible object.
What race of humans is the least civilized?
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Is Chinese a race?
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Jew
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Houdini was a Hungarian Jew.
What RACE was apostle John?
John was a jew.
Are you black or a Jew?
Judaism is a religion. Black is a race. You can be one, both, or neither.
What was the Jews' religion during the Holocaust?
Judaism. A Jew is a follower of Judaism. Jewish is NOT a race.
What was Germany's Hitler trying to do?
Hitler was trying to exterminate the whole Jew race wich did not suceed thank god but even though his mother was a Jew would he kill his on mother?
What is the difference between a dutch and a Jew?
You can be a Dutch and a Jew both. A Hebrew Jew is part of a RACE of humans. A Dutch is a person born in the Netherlands or has been naturalized a Dutch. Dutch is also the name of their language. Most of them are from the white race but there are some Hebrew race Dutch people in the Netherlands. The Hebrew Jews can speak in Hebrew and Yiddish. They can speak in the language of the nation they live or were born in. So a Hebrew Dutch could speak Dutch too.
What was the German superior race?
The master race was, and still is the white man. We were so close in eliminating the parasitic jew, think of what could of been.
Who is excluded for Hitler's master race?
Every one who was Jewish and did not have blond hair and blue eyes but he did not talk about him being a Jew because he stopped being a Jew when his mother and father died.
Did edward dunlop have religious experiences?
Yes, in fact he did. One day he encountered a Jew. He then captured the Jew and trapped the Jew in his basement. He then proceeded to rape and torture the Jew for 40 days and nights before gassing the Jew, as should be done with the entire disgusting race. Dunlop didn't like Jews. Most of his religious experiences were much like this one.
What color are the Gentiles?
Any person who is not a Jew is a Gentile, so that encompasses any other race or color of skin.
What is a misogynist and an anti-semite?
An anti-semite is someone who dislikes Jewish people. (The Jews are said by some to be 'Semites', that is members of a 'Semitic' race). * An antisemite is a Jew-hater and Jew-baiter. * A misogynist hates women.
