Recently I had a discussion with a Russian-Jewish friend about Chanukah and the history surrounding it. Yea, I know what you’re thinking… Wow gasmonso, you sure have an exciting life… but please bear with me. We talked about what Chanukah represents and so on.
The discussion then turned to Christmas and how it is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, which has a very apparent religious meaning. I pointed out that Chanukah seems to be more of a historical account of a group of people. Now here is where it got a little interesting.
Now my friend is a Russian Jew and was brought up under the Soviet system where religion and the belief in God were all but squashed. As a result, many Russian Jews don’t believe in God. But I know that according to Judaism, there is a belief in God. When I mentioned that, my friend said I understand that… however my mother was Jewish and therefore I too am Jewish.
I of course responded and said that Jews believe in God though. How could you be Jewish and not believe in God? From there it got a little hazy and we both were a little stumped.
So I pose the question to the religious collective that is Religious Freaks. Are Jews a race, a religion, or both?
If you chose to respond, please include your religion or belief system so I see how others perceive Judaism.
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“in the name of allah the all merciful, the compasionate”
here boris read it for your self,
frankly, israel will use almost anything to start bombarding lebanon. if it wernt for hezbollah, then south lebanon very well could have been in the hands of the israelis.
why can you not see the reality? why are you not understanding that what israel is doing is wrong???
” the sooner the palestinians start acting like civilized people, the sooner they are gonna live like them.”
like civilized people??? look at whats happened to their country, you want them to give up and let israel keep the land they stole from them, the innocent children,women and men they killed? simply get away with it? this is your idea of justice, israel opresses kills steals destroys and this is perfectly fine?
theres a song called ‘look into my eyes’ by a band called outlandish highlighting some of the things israelis are doing. ‘i’m terrorised in my own land, and *what* i’m the terrorist??’
“the existance of israel is not going to change.”
why because you want them to get away with all their crimes and for the palestinians to simply forget and forgive. what right did israel have to invade palestine in the first place and claim it was theirs? this happened aboput 50 years ago. is that too long ago for you too care boris?? how many more innocent children will die just because israel wants that land.
“why would they want to invade lebanon? frankly it’s a shithole”
i don’t know if you are away with the geography of that area, but i know i am because i study the subject.
* more land = more power, basics. the question is why shouldnt israel desire to have that power…
*more control over palestine. units secured in that area will be helpful aginst the palestinian forces.
*agriculture and water supply- nahr al litini river is situated there and land is amazingly fertile (as is palestine). do not dare tell me this is not a benefit.
*Hezbollah and other opposing forces in the area will not be able to operate.
think about it. Israel is in the wrong. tghere is no need whatsoever for you to defend them.
My lord is merciful…
im such an idiot, wen i sed here boris read it for yourself this is what i wanted to show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War
read it please
what right did israel have? well, none really. neither did the british empire before them. or the turkish empire before the brits. that’s not the point. many countries are conceived through very unjust means. look at the united states. but would anyone really argue that americans need to surrender the US to the indians? israel is not going to go away. try to think from the perspective of any average israeli. most muslims are asking they give up the only country they have. that elevates the conflict to a whole new level. they have nowhere else to go.
look at all the surrounding countries. they are terrible places to live. israel is a secular, democratic nation, with human rights, freedom of press etc. they live better than 99% of arabs that surround them. palestinians need to stop beating their chests, stop asking for something that’s not possible, and finally stop these silly terrorist attacks.
you sound sympathetic to hezbolah and probably hamas too. these people are terrorist scumbags. they attack civilian targets, and at the end of the day they accomplish nothing but retaliatory attacks by a much stronger enemy. they provoke the israelis into retaliation in hopes to gain sympathy from the western public opinion. if the hezbolah are strong enough to defend lebanon from the IDF, then how come they can’t drive them into the sea altogether? that’s what they want after all.
i do realize that israel is not 100% in the right. far from it actually. but i also see who they oppose: religious, fanatical terrorists who can not be reasoned with.
hizbollah should not be ckassified as a terrorist organistaion. they are simply defending south lebanon.
as for hamas, i cannot symphasise, but still they have every right to wan their land back. how about what the israelis are doing to the palestinians. how cliche but has to be said ‘the israelis started it’.fact.
the israelis are comfortably physically stronger than the palestinians.
where should they go? wherever they were before they commited their crimes towards the palestinians. for once can you please put this hatred towards religion aside and just see things as how they really are regardless of religion. how about basic human rights which the palestinians are being denied?
palestine have no other hope than to depend on hamas. most aspects of their lives are being controlled by the israelis.
dont get me wrong, im completely agaisnt terrorism. for example al qaedia is bad. full stop. because they claim to be defending islam but they are not. what happened on 9/11 was disguisting. what kind of selfish human beings would do such a thing?why would anybody have the heart to kill all those innocent people.
lets face it. by creating ‘israel’ the jews in different countries will ahve a place to be, a relif for most western countries at the time, but what about the palestinians who lose their homeland, their houses destroyed forcefully.
boris, why do u not see the reality? why do you not understand how much these palestinians are suffering. the israelis have came and stolen a large chunk (now called israel) and left the palestinians with small land for them to live on. ofcorse the palestinians want their land back. its not just, its not fair, its not right.
i do understand muslimboy. i know that the situation of palestinians right now is pretty rotten. i just don’t think they are completely blameless. the creation of israel was a pretty messy deal, with certain jewish movements resorting to muslim-style terrorist actions.
do you think it’s realistic to expect every last israeli to just pick up and go to europe? what about the ones that lived there long before there was an israel? i am arguing that palestinians could improve their situation greatly by not supporting terrorism and not giving israel any reason to use violence against them. but just how exactly can you justify rockets falling into israel and buses exploding? especially when the only thing its accomplishing is worsening the plight of the palestinians. what good has hamas done so far? in what way have they improved the situation for palestinians?
my hate for religion has nothing to do with this. i consider the religious elements on the palestinian side (and the muslim world in general) to be generally unreasonable and violent. i think that sums it up accurately.
the demand for israelis to leave permanently is unreasonable. full stop. there are people who want every muslim immigrant to leave europe. to some extent i agree with that sentiment (with reservations). now that it affects you, how do you feel about it? do you want to pick up and leave the life you’ve had?
i recently had a huge aurgument in my holocaust literature class with my teacher, “deck” …he loves everything having to do with jews, not in the sense he actually loves jews but he does thinks that they are a race…and that my friend is simply, false bullshit
jewdyism (sp?) is a religion, just because my jewish friends wear saucer shaped new york yankees ball caps on their heads doesnt mean they are a diffent color. All those who say that jewdyism (im pretty sure thats how u spell it) is a race can s-a-d, and bow at my feet
i also have a jewish girlfriend who is pretty hot, so im not antisemetic or anything…but jewish people simply read right to left and backwards, and speak a crazy language, but they arent a differnt race
peace
“i recently had a huge aurgument in my holocaust literature class with my teacher…he loves everything having to do with jews, not in the sence he actually loves jews but he thinks that they are a race…that is simply false bullshit
jewdyism (sp?) is a religion, just because my jewish friends wear saucer shaped new york yankees ball caps on their heads doesnt mean they are a diffent color. All those who say that jewdyism (im pretty sure thats how u spell it) is a race can suck-a-d, and bow at my feet
i also have a jewish girlfriend who is pretty hot, so im not antisemetic or anything…but jewish people simply read right to left and backwards, and speak a crazy language, but they arent a differnt race”
I was going to do my usual copy and paste number to attack someone’s argument, but I think the most clever retort to this guy is to simply make sure his post is read.
C’mon, Irish…if his Jewish girlfriend is hot what can you argue with?
Shalom to the group
Allow me to expound on the issue at hand I am a Messanic Hebrew (for u gentiles there is NO I or J’s in our language,
being a Hebrew is a RACE OF PERSONS just as with the blacks, or mexicans, arabs etc.
JUDANISM is our religious belief system, much as with catholism, islsam, muslims, buddusits, etc.
so the next time you use the word noun JEW, remember that is a gentile term, duing the time of King James who had his religious persons try to trasnlate the now famous KING JAMES VERSION of the Holy bible, which i believe was in the 1600′s could not translate hebrew in to english,
this is where the I OR J’s came into our being
Shalom
Peace an Blessing unto you and yours
Rabbi Josiah
being jewish is simply a religious belief
wen someone hate jewish people, they are antisemetic (sp?)
wen someone hates blacks, they are RACIST
how come people who hate jews arent considered racist, but instead antisemetic? thats because it is NOT race
shalom to you u to rabbi Josiah, but im sorry, jewish people arent a true race in society, but maybe a RACE OF PEOPLE as you call it. I have no problem with that
lahiem? (im still workin on my hebrew/yiddish)
Check a dictionary:
antisemitic: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
antichrist, here’s a better question for you:
When someone says “I don’t like muslims” people tend to agree with him, but if you say “I don’t like jews” people tend to equate you with Hitler.
How come?
alcari,
neither of those things matter because jews and muslims arent races. that’s why everyone agrees with you that muslims are weak
shi’iiiites weeeeak
PEACE
PS the only reason anyone ever “equates” me to hitler is because i’m the man
PPS sorry to melt your ice cream but the name “irishthunder” doesnt make you a different race either. firebush, maybe
Does this guy get an award for ‘Strangest Troll’ or what?
OR WHAT!!!
reminds me of the hyrocket character… makes no sense at all.
Reminds me of the general plebs of the internet. Dumb, loud, anonymous, starving for attention and immune to reason
I love ya, anti-christ! way to be brave! way to speak your mind! way to stick it to the LIBERALS! Why can’t they all just go away…?
FYI: “THE anti-christ” and “Buddha’s Rolls of Fat” have the same IP address.
I’m sure many of you would have guessed that anyway.
In a chatroom recently, a genetic doctor had this to say:
“ImthedocforU: yeah…I’m XY…..but I also happen to be the only person that can REALLY discuss the genetic studies on Y chromosomal DNA in Jewish Kohanim…..being a board certified medical geneticst and all…
ImthedocforU: lol..
ImthedocforU: the only person in THIS room, that is…
So are Jewish people a race? I would say so.
Yeah, some random guy in a chatroom claiming to be a doctor is a really reliable source…
What? Are you saying Dr. I.M.Adei’tallup is a fake?
Phoeyy, next you say my financial advicer, Y.O.Urmon Eys’Aremine has stolen all my money.
Jews aren’t really a race.
They’re kind of not a race or a religion.
I’m Jewish, and I have some friends who are black and jewish. Religiously, they’re Jewish. But ethnically, they associate more with blacks.
Muslimboy, I just want to let you know that although the
Palestinians were evicted from their homes, the Jews have
traveled all over the world, being evicted from their own
homes for 4,000 years. This obviously doesn’t justify
turning around and kicking out the Palestinians. But, if
they would agree to live in peace with Israelis in a
Jewish free state or if they were given their own nation
in the West Bank and Gaza, then our problems would be
solved. But of course they would be left out of their
original homes and cities. If everyone could live in
Israel together, then there wouldn’t have to be anyone
getting kicked out or “pushed into the sea”.
Jewish is a corruption of the word Judean, and refers to the descendants of those people expelled from Judea by the ancient Romans. In those times, every nationality had a state religion. In first century Judea, the state religion was the Judean religion, or Jewish religion as we call it today. Jewish refers to a peoplehood, which is made up of a multiplicity of cultures and races because Jews have intermarried everywhere they have settled since Biblical times. Some of those Jews still observe the Jewish religion, and others do not observe anything at all, such as atheists. Such people are sometimes called cultural Jews since they are not religious Jews. There are also non-Jews who convert to the Jewish religion, and are adopted into the the Jewish peoplehood. It is interesting to note, however, that if a Jew converts to a different religion, he or she is considered no longer a part of the Jewish peoplehood. A person can be atheist and still be Jewish, but someone like a Jew for Jesus is no longer considered part of the Jewish peoplehood. Christianity, on the other hand is strictly a religion and not a peoplehood. While Latin and Greek are still used as liturgical languanges, there isn’t a Christian language. Nobody speaks Christian. People all over the world still speak Jewish which the word Yiddish means, and the other two primary Jewish languages Hebrew and Ladino or Judeo-Spanish. To answer your question directly, Jewish is not a race but many races, it is a religion, and it is a peoplehood.
I can’t believe reading so much well-intended errance.
Once and for all:
THERE ARE NO RACES AMONGST HUMANS. Get it? There is only the human race. Other races are for example baboons, chimpanzees, gorillas.
Anybody trying to teach about “jewish race”, “african race”, you name it, is wrong. In the worst case, he’s a fascist, but more likely, he’s still caught in a system of belief which is revoked since at least 50 years.
Jewish is a religion. Not a race.
Yes, a large group of people only married each other, like the chinese or japanese do still now.
They, like the british royalty, pass on horrible heriditary diseases, because they won’t breed outside their group.
But according to the Bible, Jewishness is a RELIGION. Anyone can become a jew. even sammy davis, jr.
atheists can be residents of israel. but they aren’t jews.
There is races. Negroid, europid and whatewer. But there isn’t such thing as italian race, german race or russian race. Even if most of italians would have dark hair and russians would have blond, blond italian isn’t russian or swede. Ethnicity is mostly defined by culture, history, heritage, langue. Still character or temperament has much to do with genetics, so finns and russians by most are much less passionate than say arabs and italians (or jews).
Jew isn’t religion. Actualy first zionists was by most part (russian jewish) atheists and socialists. USA is ultra religios country so american opinion is very religios.
A. Einstein said something like, that religion is just thing of a past, or something like that, and judaism is jewish cultural heritage, but he still was jew.
And if not atheists form Russia in Israel, country econimics just couldn’t exist.
I think it is whatever it means to the individual person and leave it at that. No one can really tell you who you are or what you believe.
Judism is a religion. I don’t like when my friends are like “I don’t have a religion” and then they are saying how they are Jewish 5 mins later.
I see how people can say that Jews have had to stick together and almost become a race due to the persecution against them, but still, we’re just a group of people of the same faith.
You can’t be Jewish by birth, just like you can’t be Christian by birth. You may have a Jewish family and background, but in the end you decide if that faith is right for you.
I have read the comments 1-181. I think every comment has some truth in it, some more, some less–even considerably less. One thing is certainly true: Christian concepts have nothing to do with to whom or from where you were born. Same for all other reasonably well know religions. It is only Judiasm that is tied always to a particular tribe. Others are tied indirectly, usually remotely, but Judiasm is the only clearly defined tribal religion known outside small remote villages in Africa, etc. It’s true, Jews don’t try to make others believe their beliefs, and if one wants to convert, they make it very hard to do so compared to any other religion, and that in the main (with the exception of a handful of converts into each generation), jews are recognized by other jews, whether of the most liberal (reform) or most orthodox under one fail-save litmus test: Are you born of a Jewish mother? In
99% of the cases the Jewish mother is a Jew by blood.
I was taught by a Rabbi that Judaism is “a portable culture.”
After over 6 decades on earth, I’d say it is that, plus a tribe in the most basic sense.
Some days ago an in-laws and I were talking about this term whether Jewish is race or religion. According to what we knew about history and persecution of the Nazi to the Jewish Race I thought that it exactly was a Race. I´ve heard of Jewish persons who don´t believe exactly in God, so I couldn´t believe it was a religion.
Now reading all the concepts of commenters I am more confused and it is must to clear this up by scholars everywhere, in the USA, in Europe, etc. and here in Central America to learn exactly the truth.
Abraham sired Ismael and Isaac.
Does that mean that Arabs are Jews?
Arabs and Jews are both semites.
They even worship the same god.
To be Jewish is to belong to an ethnic group. There are a number of “sub-ethnic groups”, including Ashkenazim (Eastern European), Sephardim (Iberian and North African), Mizrachim (Middle Eastern). Fringe groups (for lack of a better term) are the Cochin Jews of India, the Kaifeng community in China, the Mountain Jews in the Caucasus, the Ethiopian Falasha community, and the Bukharian community. These groups are bound by a common religion (Judaism, obviously), and have alleles in common.
Insofar as race exists biologically (it doesn’t really), Jews are not a race, but a group of interconnected ethnic groups. See the links below for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ethnic_divisions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_identity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
Judaism is a religion, a family and a civilization. It is NOT a race (given that Jews vary in shape, size, skin color, eye color, hair color, etc.), but, like Islam and Roman Catholicism, it is hereditary (in Judaism, from the mother, in Islam and Catholicism, from the father) and capable of being converted to (which, given the serious obligations that Jews believe they have, conversion is not permitted just because of “belief”, but rather after a period of learning and an agreement to accept the (many) commandments). Most Jews are descendants of (or are still) Semites, but, again, there is no racial component to Judaism, except as proposed by those who want to make Jews “the other” and discriminate against them.
Jews, of course, believe in G-d. Their principal literature – the Hebrew Bible, the Psalms, the Talmud, all hold G-d as a certainty. But, strictly speaking, the religious texts and history do not ultimately REQUIRE belief in G-d (even though it is expected), but rather that one follows G-d’s commandments (and the glosses on such laws) so that even if one cannot (yet) spiritually believe in G-d, one is at least acting in accordance with detailed moral precepts that (hopefully) lead one in the direction of a moral and spiritual life. Judaism inherently recognizes that G-d is not easy for humans to understand and is ineffable – that is – incapable of being described in words or pictures. Accordingly, the Christian idea of a physical god (in the person of Jesus), or a mother of god (in the person of Mary) or a group of Saints who have intercessionary power with G-d – is not palatable to Jews, as it seems too similar to Greek and Roman paganism and multiple deities who have human forms or characteristics. The Jewish idea is that G-d is singular and that even the greatest prophets (e.g., Moses, Isaiah, etc.) can only have limited knowledge of what G-d is. (As G-d says, “I am that I am”, when Moses pushes for a description). Judaism’s laws and beliefs also focus on personal and communal responsibility for decisions made and a responsibility to others. Although Jews can repent (and do at Yom Kippur and on a daily basis), there is no absolution granted by proclaiming belief – one can only gain forgiveness for a crime against another person by having that person forgive him or her. In fact, the Day of Atonement prayers are collective – one asks for forgiveness for a whole host of sins, even if one is saintly and has not committed them oneself. There is also a very limited notion of heaven and hell. Heaven is “Gan Eden” – the Garden of Eden; hell is Gehenna, a brief purgatory (no more than 11 months) that souls may dwell in after death before admitted to heaven. But there is no fully fleshed out idea of being in hellfire for sins or sitting by the side of G-d in heaven – Judaism focuses on the life you are living and teaching good precepts to your children for continuity, not the afterlife. There is no “Devil” or demon who is master of an underworld and co-equal with G-d – when “Satan” appears in Job and elsewhere, it is as the “Adversary” (the definition of satan) – an angel under G-d’s complete control who serves a distinct purpose for the story being told (as all angels are -which distinguishes them from man). Likewise, angels are just part of G-d’s creation. There is absolutely no supernatural co-equal or superior power or even competitive power to G-d, which is partly why G-d needs and is interested in man. Lastly, the real purpose of Jewish prayer is to make oneself aspire to live a more holy and conscientious life, not primarily for personal answers from G-d (although, clearly, there are personal petitions). Abraham Joshua Heshel’s books – “Man is not Alone” and “God in Search of Man” are good starting points for understanding Jewish religious thought, as is Joseph Solovetichik’s somewhat different take in “The Lonely Man of Faith” and “Halachic Man”.
It would appear that the question of “jew” as a religion, a race, or a culture is answerable, in the context of the questioner. They are a religion when their leaders need to control and focus their agenda. They become a race when they need to prove their land of origen regardless of the fact that they are the only white people to have ever called it “home”. Finally they are a culture when they need to avoid explaining their actions.
I am not antisemetic or racist. I am half Cherokee a quarter Irish and a quarter Welsh. I know what genocide is and the purposes it serves to those who commit it. They ALL have to to with stealing something from those being killed and to avoid retaliation for those acts.
America has no law against the denial of the genocide of many indian tribes. The reason for that is, it is undenyable.I would welcome that debate from anyone. The Cherokee neither commemorate, celebrate, or build monuments or museums to these events. We teach our children what happened not to prevent it from happening again, but as a matter of mere history. We do not keep retelling it for three reasons and they are:1. The truth doesn’t need to convince anyone by repetition, only lies or exagerations which are one in the same need to be told over and over to be believed.2.It would only instill fear in our children of our white, black and mexican brothers who were not even alive at the time and we blame the beliefs behind the actions, not the people, for if you hate or fear a people how can you help them? Only by loving them regardless of their mistakes can you prove to them and the world that their false religions and beliefs that brought about these things were not the truth.3.We know that beliefs such as, the great creator only talks to one man in the world about things as important as “commandments” or who has the “right” to live and where, well those are stories even children would find hard to believe. The idea that GOD would have a chosen people would have to imply that perfection itself made a mistake with the rest of us?
The truth is, if you listen to only one side of a story truth is never found. There is always two sides the truth lives somewhere in between. If you will read everything you can find on Jewish history in foreign lands, you will find that the people of the world didn’t have a secret meeting to plot against the jewish people. In fact most people if not all welcomed them until a certain group of people claiming to be jews started plotting against the people and nations they were accepted into. These were the Ashkenazi of northern europe. They don’t look semetic because they are not. They don’t seem very religious considering the reason they wanted Israel was due to the temple of Solomon and the wailing wall that fewer and fewer are seen to be praying at. I have not been there but all of the video footage that I have researched by different religious group pilgrimages to Israel show less than ten or so Jews praying at the wall but hundreds of Muslum and Christian people everywhere. Why don’t American indians try to attain one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world? Why don’t we build huge walls around our reservations? Why do we look like what we claim to be? Why doesn’t anyone ask us if we are a religion or a race? Why don’t we have to prove that we are from here? Why don’t we ask other countries and peoples to fight our battles for us? Why don’t we make claims of racism when we are questioned about something we may have done wrong? Why didn’t we heal our peoples genocide by commiting genocide on another race over land? Why don’t we insist that those responsible for the crimes against us be punished by the United Nations but insist they ignore the very same crimes if we commit them? Why can Israel have free reign to create nuclear weopons that could effect the whole world if used and they are the only ones not subject to inspection? If Iran and Israel are enemies, why can’t Iran have the same weopons? Doesn’t an even and fair fight usually if not always when faced with an uncertain outcome bring about compromise? Don’t most people know that nuclear war has no winner? Can people not see that the leader of Iran is representing US interest by provoking a war and pretending to be crazy? If the greatest element of war is the element of suprise, why would you announce publicly your plan? If our invasion of Iraq was temporary, why have we built an “embassy” that is larger than the Vatican? If Israel is a friend to us why does anyone and everyone in the CIA know that they are ranked #1 nation of concern for spying on us? Why is it that when the economy started to collapse I saw a report about a mass exodus of 200,000 Jews with dual citizenship moved back to Israel? Why is the standard Jewish defense against any accusation anti-semitism? Why after the “halocost” and the entire world learned about the terrible way the whole world has treated the Jews, why did they form the ADL? Why in the heart of AMERICAN monuments “the washington maul” is there a holocaust memorial? Was it carried out by Americans or on AMERICANS?
The truth is there are very few real Jews left in the world and none in Israel. Real Jews know that their beliefs indicate that only God himself would come down and restore them to Israel not the US or Britain and any Jew living there before that time would be sinning directly against GOD and destroyed by GOD. The real Jews are the original victims of identity theft. A race of people known as the Kazars from the Caucas area of Russia assumed the identity of the Jewish people to avoid punishment for crimes they had commited. These are the Ashkenazi and they are a race. They are inbreeders and have loyalty only to themselves. If you look in any medical journal on heredity defects do to innermingling they are top of the list. I guess that makes the entire medical field anti-semetic? They are neither Jewish by religion or race. So in closing let me just ask that you not waste time attacking me but disprove anything I said and I will apologize. Take this not as an attack on Jews but for real Jews who are being lied about. They are a peaceful and loving people who believe they were chosen by God not to lead or rule, but to teach mankind a better way.
First let’s give examples of race, ethnicity, culture, etc. These words are often applied in the wrong context.
Race (there are only 3):
Negroid
Caucasoid
Mongoloid
Ethnicity (examples):
Hispanic
Mediterranean
Middle Eastern
Native American
Nationality (examples):
Italian
German
Chinese
Mexican
Puerto Rican
Albanian
Ethiopian
Culture (examples):
Jewish
Italian
Apache
Gypsy
Christian
Religion (examples):
Protestant
Catholic
Museum
Hindu
Judaism
Example 1: A “Native American” is—
Race: Mongoloid—their ancestors walked here from the Mongolian region of the
world some time around the ice age.
Ethnicity: Native American is an ethnicity.
Nationality: Depends on where they settled; could be Alaskan, American, Central
American, etc
Culture: varies from tribe to tribe and nationality
Religion: Could be any
Example 2: “My mom was Jewish, but I am an atheist; however, I am a Jew.”
Race: Could be any of the three listed above
Ethnicity: Since Jews can exist in any race, there technically is no ethnicity;
except– A direct descendant of Isaac and Jacob; a descendant of one of the 12
tribes of Israel could be construed as a Jewish ethnicity. In this case one could
say that they are Jewish, but do or do not practice the religion. There is a genetic
link that bonds that particular ethnicity together. For example, the disease
Tay-Sachs is prevalent in those with “Jewish Ancestry” (see the Center for the
Study and Treatment of Jewish Genetic Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center Health Systems)
Nationality: Russian, American, Israeli, Polish, etc… Whatever country one is a
Jew in.
Culture: This is the most common. There is a strong Jewish culture, bound by
religion, history, language, and sometimes ethnicity.
Religion: Anyone can convert to Judaism just like any other religion.
In Short, Judaism, or “being Jewish,” is not a race and not a nationality. It is a culture and it is a religion. It can be an ethnicity.
Answerr Man, how do you spell “answer”?
To err is you man.
but two for give is simply The vine.
The–
The “rr” at the end of answer was a type-o. Your diligence in noting typing errors is noted.
I’M A TYPE A, MYSELF.
Me, I’m indefinite.
although I’m not really sure.
Every post I make starts with a grammatical error.
Welcome I. It’s lonely being a single-letter word.
Single letter words unite.
Now I is not.
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