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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a space for "Jew" when identifying race?  I have never seen it on an employment app.[/quote]

No. But applications don’t list every race or ethnicity, so that’s not a good metric.[/quote]
Most of the apps don't go by ethnicity (that would indeed be too many), but they do list every race. Perhaps they don't list "jews" because the US government has deemed it not a race?

Is Middle Eastern a race?  If you are from Syria, what "race" would you or the US government define you as?[/quote]

Technically certain sunsets of the broader Jewish populations are ethnicities, not races.

Frankly, as an Ashkenazi Jew, I wouldn’t want to feel pressure to identify myself on an employment application because I’d fear discrimination. [/quote]

What career field do you work in where you'd fear discrimination against you because you're Jewish? That's never even crossed my mind as a concern (I've worked in journalism on the East Coast for 20 years).[/quote]

My child’s JCC and our shul have had swatiskas spray painted on them and have had bomb threats. While I haven’t experienced discrimination at work, anti-Semitism is alive and well, even in Montgomery County, where we live.

And PP: my point is to discuss a part of Jewish identity that many people seem to deny exists. It offends me when this happens and so I wanted to correct the record.[/quote]

Yes, my elementary school and high school in Montgomery County had swastikas painted on them, too (30 or so years ago), and it's not hard to read the news and realize that anti-Semitism still exists. But people will always hate other people for bad reasons; the fact that some jerk hates me because I'm Jewish doesn't actually affect my life much if all he can do about it is call me a kike on Twitter. I don't see any evidence that there's much structural discrimination (as opposed to impotent hate) directed at Ashkenazi Jews in the United States these days. Do you?[/quote]

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