Is being Jewish a race, or is it a religious idea?

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Answer 1

Judaism is a religion

Answer 2

Judaism is typically considered to be an ethno-religious group. It has certain elements that are common to all ethnicities, such as a common language, a common ancestry, particular customs of association, and a view of common historic nation-hood. It also has certain elements that other religions share such as a belief in divine beings and a God, specific divine mandates, houses of worship, and holy scriptures. (Other ethno-religious groups include the Druze and Yazidi.) It is certainly not a race since there are White Jews, Arab Jews, Chinese Jews, Hispanic Jews, and Black Jews.

Some people like to say that Judaism is similar to a nationality since nationality bears many of the traits of an ethno-religious group. Ethno-religious groups, unlike other common religions, prevent a person from converting out. This is because the ethnic component of Judaism ties a person to Judaism regardless of what they believe. This is as opposed to a pure religion, like Christianity, where failure to believe in the Christ makes a person a non-Christian. However, a person can gain a nationality through a difficult process of citizenship-acquisition. This is because the religious component of Judaism accepts conversion. This is as opposed to a pure ethnicity, like Italian. A person cannot convert to Italian as much as he may like spaghetti and Pizza.

Answer:Judaism is defined as both a religion and an ethnicity. It's an ethnicity because Jews are descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives: Jews, despite their diversity, are related to each other (as has been shown by DNA analyses of far-flung Jewish communities). And it's a religion, because Judaism is defined as the religion of Moses; the religion of the Torah, which includes people born Jewish as well as converts.

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today it is known as a religon personily i consider us what we were 2000 years ago... a nationality

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Judaism is generally viewed as a combination of religion, nationality and culture. It is a religion, with a specific view of God, creation, revelation and redemption. It is a nationality, in the older sense of nationality that didn't require that nations have territorial boundaries, and it is a culture, with its own literature, music, language and food ways. The concept of race is clearly entangled in this, but Jews, like many other religions and nationalities and cultures, have long allowed conversion, or in national terms, adoption or naturalization of outsiders. As a result, while Jews generally marry Jews, you will find Jews who resemble all of the racial types people have traditionally defined.

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Judaism is generally viewed as a combination of religion, nationality and culture. It is a religion, with a specific view of God, creation, revelation and redemption. It is a nationality, in the older sense of nationality that didn't require that nations have territorial boundaries, and it is a culture, with its own literature, music, language and food ways. The concept of race is clearly entangled in this, but Jews, like many other religions and nationalities and cultures, have long allowed conversion, or in national terms, adoption or naturalization of outsiders. As a result, while Jews generally marry Jews, you will find Jews who resemble all of the racial types people have traditionally defined.