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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve seen this misconception way too many times on this board.

Jews are a racial group. You don’t have to be ethnically Jewish to be Jewish, but Ashkenazi and Sephardic are ethnic identities. You can never practice Judaism and still be Jewish if you have that ethnic background.[/quote]

Race is a social construct.  You can guess if someone is from China or from Sweden by looking at their faces and hair, with a moderate number of exceptions. They are, however, defined geographically.

Jews are a people. A people it is possible to enter by birth, or by conversion.  And by birth, only the mother matters, not the father, which is not how genes work.

By halacha it is not possible to leave it, in theory, if you were born into it, but the wisdom of the people considers someone who has formally converted to another religion to have left it.

Just as you can be an American and not care about America or practice American culture, but certain acts can cause your citizenship to be revoked.

A people is not a religion, but neither is it  a race.

What holds the Jews together is Jewish civilization.  Which is a religious civilization. Its more than a religion - it has languages, secular literatures, holidays with secular aspects, etc.  But at its core are "religious" texts and traditions. [/quote]

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