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They're beastly Jesus-killers! Of course people are going to pick on them!

Honestly, get with the program. Join the Nazis!

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Please tell me you're joking. Otherwise I will possibly blow up.

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Who is a Jew?

A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.

It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish parents who has not undergone the formal process of conversion but who believes everything that Orthodox Jews believe and observes every law and custom of Judaism is still a non-Jew, even in the eyes of the most liberal movements of Judaism, and a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox. In this sense,

Judaism is more like a nationality than like other religions, and being Jewish is like a citizenship.

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http://www.jewfaq.org/judaism.htm

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Actually, Judaism is a race, insofar as races exist. 90%+ of all Jews (Mizrahi, Sephardi and Ashkenazi) carry unique Semitic haploids which are not found in any other racial demographic.

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Though the Jewish population as a whole may be genetically distinctive enough to classify as a biological race, one simply can't become Asian the way that one can become Jewish; the latter term does not refer solely to one's ethnic heritage. In that sense, Judaism is in many ways more of a nationality than a race, as it encompasses both converts and born-in citizenry.  

EDIT: Out of curiosity, does your percentage include Jews (formal converts and the like) who do not belong to Mizrahi, Sephardi, or Ashkenazi subgroups?

(Edited by quidam at 3:26 am on Mar. 31, 2006)

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Are you there, Margaret? It's me, God.

AND I THOUGHT YOU WENT TO BED.

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Fucking for fear of not wanting to fear again.

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AND I THOUGHT YOU WENT TO BED.

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I DID BUT THEN I COULDN'T SLEEP.

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Are you there, Margaret? It's me, God.

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Actually, Judaism is a race, insofar as races exist. 90%+ of all Jews (Mizrahi, Sephardi and Ashkenazi) carry unique Semitic haploids which are not found in any other racial demographic.

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Being Jewish is more like being part of an ethnic group but there are many different Jews. Ethiopian Jews are blacks. Ashkenaze Jews are considered Eastern European ethnically. Sephardic Jews are more like Southern European. It does not matter because we are all brothers.  

How come you guys can say that Judaism is a race and then agree with abs? Abs said that European jews are not semitic so therefore when he says something against jews he is not antisemitic. He says Jews in Israel are racist against semites.And yet you guys agree????

It does not matter what Jews do we are always wrong. We are members of a religion when people think it's convenient so ppl can go attack us and say they are not being racist. Then we are a race when people want to lump us all into some group so they can hate us all. I am so sick of it all.

If WE tell you what WE are why can't you accept it?
I gave the definition. Just take or leave it alone. The traits you mention have to do with ethnicity.

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Almost all Jews (including fringe groups like Falashi), retain Semitic haploid groups despite the presence of superstrate ethnicities (Ethiopian, southern European, eastern European, Indian, Middle Eastern, residents of the Caucasus, whatever). This means that the vast majority of Jews are descended from a relatively small and insular community of people who probably originated somewhere in the fertile crescent. Therefore, due to the common ancestor that is suggested in the mitochondrial evidence and the similarities in blood groups despite geographical disparity, Judaism is a race, insofar as races exist at all.

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Fucking for fear of not wanting to fear again.

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Therefore, due to the common ancestor that is suggested in the mitochondrial evidence and the similarities in blood groups despite geographical disparity, Judaism is a race, insofar as races exist at all.

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Why don't you read this book

We jews: who we are and What we should do

I understand you are not trying to be critical (or I hope not) but you are not accurate and I am trying to correct you that's all.

Besides the word Judaism refers mostly to the religion not the Jewish people. So it is not a very accurate use of the term.

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I suppose christian is a race as well then.

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Except not really.

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Christianity has no cultural similarities across national boundries. Each area infuses their own culture with Christianity. Judaism has remained relatively separate from that.