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[quote=Anonymous]For the record, Jew are considered an ethnoreligious group.  The are neither defined exclusively by their ethnic, nor religious background, but a combination of the two.

Within the "Jewish" commuinity there are MANY ethnicities and MANY flavors of religious beliefs.

We have Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews and we even have BLACK Jews all over Africa, most curious are The Jews of Rusape in Zimbabwe who are believed to be the Lost Tribe of Jacob.  It is believed that when the Jews were chased out of Israel, some of them might have gone deep into Africa.  This coveres the very diverse ethnicities of Jews.

If you talk about religious flavor, we have Hasidic and Refrom and a TON inbetween.

Sorry, no one has cornered the market on Judiasm.  Jews are a very diverse group with lots of room for many newcommers.

Many people have a Jew or two in their heritage. My great grandmother was supposedly a German, but turns out she was given to a German family and was raised as a secular German in order to escape death. This all came out very recently. Many people out of fear of prosecution have kept their Jew heritage a secret, often to their graves. [/quote]

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