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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone in a clear, non-obfuscatory simply answer the question? Is Jewish a race?i[/quote]

No, it’s a religion. You can practice it and convert to it. Just like Baptist, catholic, Muslim, etc. [/quote]

It’s disingenuous to ignore the ethnicity element of it.  [/quote]

To you. Not to me. [/quote]

Are you Jewish? Because no one I know who is Jewish thinks being Jewish is "just a religion." And certainly, none of the antisemites throughout history have considered Judaism/being jewish "just a religion.

So yes, Judaism is a religion and it is much much more. It is a culture, and a genetic community -- it's why I and other Ashkenazi Jews are tested for certain genetic issues when we get pregnant. Many, many Jews are not religious AT ALL and considered themselves Jewish.

Certainly, when antisemites come for us, they are rarely coming on the basis of our religion.

So you are a disingenuous, incurious non-Jewish person who is taking over the real lived experiences of Jews.[/quote]

Not the PP, but I think if you were to ask any rabbi this question they would say that Judaism is first and foremost a religion that has a strong ethnic identity and a biological inheritance (hence the bloodline to the mother).[/quote]

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