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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since race is a social construct, I hardly think “Jews are a race” to be without question and undebatable. 
Your statement doesn’t even make sense. Are you saying that the ashkenazi and Sephardim are separate racial groups? You realize that there are Jews who fit into neither category?
Are Muslims a race? Hindus? [/quote]

Just stop.

I don’t know about Muslims or Hindus, but yes — Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews (as well as some others) are considered racial groups. I had the Ashkenazi Jew genetic screening panel done when I was pregnant. My 23 and me results say[b] “50% Ashkenazi Jewish.”[/b]

You don’t know what you’re talking about.[/quote]

I would think you have to be over 50% to be considered of the Jewish race? If you think this way where do you draw the line on who is a Jewish enough vs just mixed blood? We have gone down this path before and it never works out well. [/quote]

Just because this fact was used by anti-Semites to justify horrific acts doesn’t mean it’s wrong to acknowledge the genetic component of Judaism.

There’s no consensus on a percentage, but I think any genetic background consistent with Ashenazi, Sephardic or other Jewish ethnic groups is enough to say you’re ethnically Jewish.

If I’m comfortable with this, as a Jew, why aren’t you?[/quote]

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