Is "Jewish" or being a Jew a religion, race, or culture, or a combination of all.?

Question

I understand that any person can practice jewish belief's, which raises a second question. How does the Jewish community precieve person's of other ethnic backgrounds who may have converted or where raised Jewish? If this question is somehow offensive to anyone this is not intended.

Answer 1

It is all 3. One does not have to be Jewish(ethnicity) to be Jewish(religion)

Answer 2

Tradition is that you are Jewish if you are born of a Jewish mother. So it's a mix of culture and heredity. You can adopt another religion or no religion, swear out citizenship to any nation, but you can never become not Jewish, any more than you could change your eye color. These rules were adopted in the wake of the Roman conquest of Judea, when most of the men were put to the sword, and the women forced into slavery and prostitution throughout the empire. Identifying the women as the respository of Jewishness allowed the survival of the nation.

Conversion to Judaism is an involved process and it adds some ambiguity to this definition. As a matter of social history, Jews are not especially accepting of converts, and it may take a generation or two before a convert's progeny can be fully accepted as Jewish. Adoption is another ambiguous situation, although adopted non-Jewish infants are usually readily accepted.

Answer 3

Jew is neither a race or a faith Jew is somebody who's component to the religion called Judaism(Jew=Jewish guy or woman) and Jew as a thoughts set could desire to be argued in distinctive approaches

Answer 4

This Q was asked a while back, didn't it pop up as such? You know a similar question has already been asked?